Insights and Stories on Land Use

At Agribition: Northern community integrates tech, education into market garden

Nov. 23, 2023 at 2:45 pm CST

Riverside Market Garden, operated by Flying Dust First Nation, started in 2009 with two people and an old alfalfa field. Today it employs about 20 people, plus summer students; provides food for the community and some wholesalers; and gives youth a chance to learn about agriculture. Over the years the […]

Thompson returns as P.E.I. ag minister

Apr. 24, 2023 at 7:45 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

U.S. appeals court rules for environmental groups in biofuel case

Jul. 16, 2021 at 5:15 pm CDT

By Stephanie Kelly

Tighter regulations take effect for B.C. farmland reserve

Mar. 13, 2020 at 2:35 am CDT

By GFM Staff

UN flags need to reduce meat consumption to curb land use impact on global warming

Aug. 8, 2019 at 7:42 pm CDT

By Nina Chestney stephanie-nebehay

Ontario to add local weight to land use appeal process

May. 16, 2017 at 7:25 pm CDT

Ontario’s Municipal Board (OMB), which handles appeals of land use planning decisions across the province, is set to be replaced with a new Local Planning Appeal Tribunal. The provincial government announced Tuesday it will introduce legislation “in the coming weeks” to replace the Ontario Municipal Board with the new tribunal, […]

By Staff

Study finds Canadian beef’s GHG footprint shrunk over 30 years

Jan. 11, 2016 at 6:51 pm CST

Efficiencies in cattle production and feeding have allowed Canada’s beef industry to produce the same weight in beef as 30 years ago with smaller breeding herds, less land — and smaller greenhouse gas (GHG) output, a new study finds. The study, led by research scientist Tim McAllister of Agriculture and […]

By Staff

U.S. EPA launches probe into benefits of biofuels program

Oct. 16, 2015 at 8:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s in-house investigators have launched a review of the environmental benefits stemming from the country’s decade-old program requiring the use of corn-based ethanol in gasoline. The investigation, to be conducted by the Inspector General for EPA, will examine whether the agency has […]

By Chris Prentice