World hunger is bringing together leaders in Rome this week for a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization food security summit. Director general Jacques Diouf calls world hunger “ the kind that’s now killing a child...
Read MoreBeef farmers say they’re not much better off than pork farmers (who are losing at least $20 per animal) these days, and they’re asking Ottawa for help. Beef production never really recovered from the 2003 BSE...
Read MoreAs University of Guelph student (and blogger) Amanda Brodhagen says, there aren’t many opportunities like the Canadian Young Speakers for Agriculture program where young people from across the country can come together and...
Read MoreAlong with some of my agricultural communications and SPARK students from the University of Guelph, I was fortunate to attend a presentation in Toronto by Syngenta Canada President Jay Bradshaw in which he outlined the value of...
Read MoreLeonard Nduati Kariuki (pictured below) of Kenya, president of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers’ African farmers’ committee, is warning of a “new technological colonialism.†It’s a...
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Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.