Restoring Canadian seed diversity, one farm at a time
September 17, 2020 4:27 pm Leave your thoughtsAll across the country, farmers are restoring Canadian seed diversity. Even here, on this rooftop farm.
Categories for Sustainable agriculture
A Canadian seed farmer reflects on the pandemic: A Q&A with Kim Delaney
September 14, 2020 2:09 pm Leave your thoughts“There have been a lot of challenges. But a lot of learning too—that’s how I'm going to look at it.”
This is a farm: Agroforestry feeds communities in Timor-Leste
July 9, 2020 12:37 pm Leave your thoughtsTomas Pinto grows an astonishing blend of different foods in a very small area.
Indigenous food sovereignty in action: A Q&A with Carl McCorrister of Peguis First Nation
June 14, 2020 3:50 pm Leave your thoughts"We have taken much pride in our community garden initiative as a way of restoring our food sovereignty once again."
In the news | Food security starts with seed security, say Canadian seed producers
May 29, 2020 4:11 pm Leave your thoughtsWhen the pandemic hit, many of us had the same reflex: reach for seeds. Luckily,... View Article
We’re seeing the cracks: Creating better food systems post-COVID-19
May 26, 2020 2:34 pm Leave your thoughtsWe need to approach post-COVID-19 recovery in the food system in a way that’s also going to build resilience to climate change.
COVID-19 shows us why we need a better relationship with biodiversity
May 22, 2020 11:34 am Leave your thoughtsThat relationship starts with food. Each year, when the International Day for Biological Diversity takes... View Article
UPDATE: Help a farmer avoid a food crisis
May 14, 2020 1:57 pm Leave your thoughtsWe must act now to prevent a major food crisis in Central America in the wake of COVID-19.
The Hill Times | Farmers fighting climate change, at home and abroad
April 15, 2020 11:05 am Leave your thoughtsFarmers everywhere are on the frontlines of climate change, writes SeedChange Executive Director, Jane Rabinowicz in The Hill Times.
Tasty terraces in Timor-Leste!
March 4, 2020 4:52 pm Leave your thoughtsTerraces help prevent landslides and ensure hillside farms have moist, happy soil.
There’s a new campaign tackling climate change in Canada: Farmers for Climate Solutions
March 1, 2020 10:08 am Leave your thoughtsAny conversation about climate change in 2020 must include agriculture.
This is what international solidarity looks like
February 7, 2020 3:00 pm Leave your thoughtsPartnerships, crop breeding, conserving biodiversity... just a bit of what we do around the world.
Filling the ag research gap in Canada
January 26, 2020 10:28 pm Leave your thoughtsThe 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!
January 17, 2020 10:03 pm Leave your thoughts"Not only have I gained a lot of knowledge, but I’ve also become much more emancipated as a housewife.”
Five food resolutions for 2020 (that aren’t about dieting)
January 13, 2020 4:20 pm Leave your thoughtsWhat are your resolutions for 2020? We have a few!
The CBC | The fight against climate change down home on the Alberta farm
December 30, 2019 12:10 pm Leave your thoughtsFarmers are impacted by the climate crisis, but the way they tend the land can help mitigate climate change.
