Insights and Stories of Laura Rance-Unger

Clubroot found in Manitoba soils

Mar. 1, 2013 at 5:40 pm CST

Testing has confirmed levels of clubroot capable of producing disease in two soil samples collected from Manitoba canola fields last year, provincial officials say. "It is significant in that we can no longer consider ourselves free of clubroot in Manitoba," said Holly Derksen, a plant pathologist with Manitoba Agriculture, Food […]

WFP hails Canada for leadership role in food security pact

Feb. 7, 2013 at 7:53 pm CST

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CWB says controversial ad met its objective

Jan. 31, 2013 at 12:26 pm CST

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Man. beef processor moves on federal upgrade

Jan. 28, 2013 at 10:47 am CST

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From Ethiopia: Aid agencies focus on helping others to help themselves

Feb. 21, 2012 at 5:16 am CST

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In Ethiopia: Pivotal to survival, donkeys get no respect

Feb. 8, 2012 at 4:34 pm CST

If author Anna Sewell were alive today, chances are she’d be writing a follow to her best-selling novel Black Beauty about the plight of Addis and Ababa — donkeys in Ethiopia. Her 1877 story about a horse raised awareness of the inhumane treatment of horses in England and sold 50 […]

By Laura Rance-Unger

In Ethiopia: Agricultural growth a multifaceted challenge

Feb. 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm CST

With nearly 50 per cent of Ethiopia’s GDP rooted in agriculture, it goes without saying that growing the industry is its best short-term hope of boosting the economy. After all, between 80 and 90 per cent of Ethiopians farm for a living. It has the highest per capita density of […]

By Laura Rance-Unger

In Ethiopia: Conservation gospel falls on fertile soil

Feb. 7, 2012 at 7:00 pm CST

A row of derelict tractors on an abandoned state farm is a fitting reminder that industrialized agriculture has a checkered future in this populous East African country. With their faded red paint, gutted engines and rotting tires gradually being swallowed by the prickly underbrush, these 1970s-vintage symbols of progressive agriculture […]

By Laura Rance-Unger

In Ethiopia: Too many people, too little land and a changing climate

Feb. 2, 2012 at 5:18 pm CST

The highway southwest of Addis Ababa to Wolayto-Soddo is wide and smooth, but there is no such thing in Ethiopia as setting the cruise control and just cruising, as one would expect to do on the wide open Canadian Prairies. With nearly 80 million people, Ethiopia is densely populated and […]

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In Ethiopia: First impressions of a far-off land

Jan. 31, 2012 at 10:14 am CST

The sun was just peeking above the horizon as the Boeing 777 banked south just over Cairo, Egypt and headed for Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital that serves as the hub for all of Africa. We’d been travelling ahead in time, losing a night as we left Washington, D.C. at […]

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