Author Archives for Elodie



The Hill Times | Farmers fighting climate change, at home and abroad

Farmers everywhere are on the frontlines of climate change, writes SeedChange Executive Director, Jane Rabinowicz in The Hill Times.

The COVID-19 virus knows no borders

We need to work together in solidarity, across borders, to tackle this crisis and the many others that layer onto it.

SeedChange staff picks: What to read, watch and listen to

We’re all doing what we can to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Here's what SeedChange staff are reading, watching and listening to right now.

How to use your dry beans: Maple-baked northern beans

Looking for something new to try with your dry beans? We’ve got you covered!

We’re all in this together | A message from our executive directors

We are all connected and compassion is our collective project. Together, we will get through this.

Tasty terraces in Timor-Leste!

Terraces help prevent landslides and ensure hillside farms have moist, happy soil.

image of a spotched patterned seed with an anatomy textbook style lines with words pointing out from it.

What makes a good seed?

Seeds are tiny things with a big job: producing beautiful, delicious, sustainable and diverse food.

There’s a new campaign tackling climate change in Canada: Farmers for Climate Solutions

Any conversation about climate change in 2020 must include agriculture.

National Observer | These Canadian farmers have a plan for tackling climate change

Our ED, Jane Rabinowicz, discusses Farmers for Climate Solutions in the National Observer.

SeedChange solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people and support for Indigenous sovereignty

We urge the Canadian government to uphold its commitments as a signatory to the UNDRIP.

This is what international solidarity looks like

Partnerships, crop breeding, conserving biodiversity... just a bit of what we do around the world.

(Photo: Marianne Helm)

Filling the ag research gap in Canada

The world lost 75 per cent of its crop diversity in the last century. But farmers in Canada are working to reverse the trend.

Meet Maria Traoré, a farmer in Mali!

"Not only have I gained a lot of knowledge, but I’ve also become much more emancipated as a housewife.”

The CBC | The fight against climate change down home on the Alberta farm

Farmers are impacted by the climate crisis, but the way they tend the land can help mitigate climate change.

Cranberries

Did you know cranberries don’t actually grow in water?

How to turn the desert green: Bringing soil back in Burkina Faso

Thirty-three per cent of the Earth's soil is already degraded - and as much as 90 per cent could become degraded by 2050.