Chocolate, chips, candy, ice cream… They all contain it
October 1, 2019 3:40 pm Leave your thoughtsEven your makeup, soaps and lotions could contain a substance whose cultivation contributes to deforestation and displacement of small-scale farmers.
Categories for Sustainable agriculture
Who will grow our food when today’s farmers retire?
October 1, 2019 3:19 pm Leave your thoughtsWith the average farmer being 54 years old, who will grow our food, when today's farmers retire?
Meet a Canadian seed saver: Owen Bridge, Annapolis Seeds
October 1, 2019 2:06 pm Leave your thoughtsWhen he was 12 years old, Owen Bridge had an encounter that would change his life.
Self-sufficiency means not having to rely on large seed companies every year
October 1, 2019 11:42 am Leave your thoughtsLoïc Dewavrin is a grain, soy and oil seed farmer – and a seed saver on a massive scale.
Disappearing corn: Making tortillas without the main ingredient
September 30, 2019 5:26 pm Leave your thoughtsClimate change makes growing corn in parts of Central America near impossible. So these farmers are turning to something else.
How onions seeds grew into self-sufficiency
September 30, 2019 12:43 pm Leave your thoughtsSitan used to walk hours every day to the market in Bamako, Mali to sell agricultural goods.
Women coffee growers beating the odds in Honduras
September 29, 2019 8:10 pm Leave your thoughts"Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that farming was my thing to do. What I liked most was being in the field."
Open sesame: Women are seeding change in Honduras with this tiny seed
September 29, 2019 7:53 pm Leave your thoughtsWomen farmers in Honduras just launched a new microenterprise specializing in all things sesame!
Breeding maize to survive hurricanes in Honduras
September 29, 2019 7:28 pm Leave your thoughtsThis corn can literally stand up to hurricanes.
Agroecology on the front lines of shifting agriculture
September 29, 2019 7:19 pm Leave your thoughtsHere's how agroecology has been part of the shift to diversified food systems in countries where SeedChange works.
Science applied to organic agriculture helps all farmers
September 29, 2019 6:58 pm Leave your thoughtsResearch in organic systems is supporting a long neglected agricultural sector that is responding remarkably.
#WeNeedAShift | You can call for a change in the way we grow food
September 29, 2019 6:41 pm Leave your thoughtsWe need a shift to diversified, eco-friendly food systems. That means agriculture needs to change.
Breeding seeds for the climate crisis
September 29, 2019 6:19 pm Leave your thoughtsDid you know Canada does not produce enough vegetable seed to meet farmers' needs?
Canada now has a national food policy. What does it mean?
June 18, 2019 4:13 pm Leave your thoughts"Everyone at the table!" SeedChange reacts to the new National Food Policy.
Jeidy always dreamed of running her own farm
April 4, 2019 11:20 am Leave your thoughtsIn Honduras, it's usually men who own land and manage crop sales. But Jeidy always dreamed of running her own farm.
Does Canada’s new food guide connect healthy eating and healthy farming?
January 23, 2019 3:51 pm Leave your thoughtsHealthy, sustainable diets cannot exist without healthy, sustainable farming.