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Upgrades on menu for food bank operator Harvest Manitoba
Farm Credit Canada donates $500,000 to Harvest Manitoba for warehousing updates and expansion

Manitoba food processors welcome funding
Government announced $6 million to bolster local food processors July 23

Waving Canadian flag not enough to keep rural business afloat
Buying Canadian won’t help save the local, rural small business; it needs to also be ‘Buy Local’

How to buy Canadian at the grocery store
“Buy local” and “buy Canadian” campaigns are spreading, thanks in no small part to friction with the U.S. around tariffs and a desire for grocery shoppers to support Canadian businesses

More food sovereignty action urged during tariff pause
The National Farmers Union argues for trade policy changes, local food system support

Local food system would reap big economic benefits researcher says
B.C. researchers found that the Okanagan could produce two thirds of its own food while maintaining exports

The resiliency of ‘local’

Farm and Food Awareness week events raise profile of Manitoba agriculture sector
Discover the Farm beat attendance expectations and AITC-Manitoba officially launched its new virtual knowledge hub

Direct farm marketing makes gains in Manitoba
The pandemic shifted farmer and consumer habits, but may make data less representative of the norm, says Direct Farm Manitoba

Early-pandemic calls to localize supply chains unfounded
With a year's worth of data, three agriculture economists revisit early-pandemic predictions on the food supply chain
With a year's worth of data, three agriculture economists revisit early-pandemic predictions on the food supply chain
A year of data shows early-pandemic calls for radical changes to food systems and risk management programs were unfounded, say some economists. Particularly in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, food supply chains struggled to adapt to changing consumption patterns and processors shut down due to virus outbreaks. “Into that void of uncertainty came