Insights and Stories on Climate Change

World Food Program seeking billions within six months to avert famine

Oct. 13, 2020 at 8:26 pm CDT

London | Reuters — The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) will need to raise US$6.8 billion over the next six months to avert famine amid the COVID-19 crisis, the agency said on Tuesday. The WFP, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last week for its efforts to prevent […]

Fertilizer use fuelling climate-warming nitrous oxide emissions, study says

Oct. 7, 2020 at 8:00 pm CDT

By Matthew Green

Study shows how U.S. farm landscapes could be reshaped by climate

Oct. 5, 2020 at 5:09 pm CDT

By Sonia Elks

JBS vows to monitor whole cattle supply chain’s impact on Amazon

Sep. 23, 2020 at 3:20 pm CDT

By roberto-samora

Throne speech commits to rural broadband improvement

Sep. 23, 2020 at 2:29 pm CDT

By D.C. Fraser

Wheat in Whitehorse: How climate change helps feed Canada’s remote regions

Mar. 23, 2020 at 8:34 am CDT

Winnipeg/Ottawa | Reuters — After failing to grow wheat in the Yukon territory 15 years ago, farmer Steve Mackenzie-Grieve gave it another shot in 2017. Thanks to longer summers, he has reaped three straight harvests. This spring he plans to sow canola on his family’s 450-acre farm near Whitehorse, a […]

By Kelsey Johnson Rod Nickel

Bottles of Roundup herbicide on a shelf.

New Brunswick postpones pesticide use hearings

Mar. 18, 2020 at 10:25 am CDT

The New Brunswick government’s planned public hearings on the use of glyphosate and other pesticides are postponed, and more time is being granted for the public to file written briefs. The provincial legislature’s all-party standing committee on climate change and environmental stewardship on Feb. 5 announced it would hold hearings […]

By GFM Staff

NFU paper lays out solutions for climate, farming challenges

Dec. 13, 2019 at 3:43 am CST

MarketsFarm — The global climate crisis is interlinked with the financial crisis on Canadian farms, according to a new discussion paper from the National Farmers Union (NFU). The paper proposes changes to agriculture practices that could help the sector become part of the solution to both major issues. Compiled by […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Canadians to spend more on food in 2020, report predicts

Dec. 4, 2019 at 11:09 am CST

MarketsFarm — Canadians will spend two to four per cent more on food in 2020, according to the latest Canada Food Price Report from researchers at Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab and the University of Guelph. The average family in the country will see its total food bill for groceries […]