Summertime’s easygoing vibe has a way of alleviating tension, or at least postponing it.
Because why else aren’t people wringing their hands about Russia’s game-changing exit from the Black Sea grain movement deal?
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The drive towards greater food security has raised a huge question: who has the right to own farmland?
North America has some of the best farmland anywhere. Its productivity is one of the big factors that determines the price. Buyers clamour for it.
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I guess you would expect the agriculture secretary of the world’s most powerful country to be optimistic about the odds of feeding the world during such challenging times.
But it must be hard to keep your chin up when your country, which has a huge role in global food security, is so politically divided.
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The first officially recognized Food Day Canada is finally here.
After 20 years of momentum, Saturday marks the first time Food Day Canada is being recognized by Ottawa. Bill-S227, An Act to Establish a Food Day in Canada, was passed in the spring.
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Farmers’ ire rises, and so do their costs, every time more market consolidation takes place.
It’s an age-old formula: by buying their competitors, the giants of the industry control supply and price….
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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.