Tag Archive | "Canada"

News, Principle 1: Safeguard natural resources, Principle 2: Share knowledge, Principle 3: Build local access and capacity, Principle 4: Protect harvests, Principle 5: Enable access to markets, Principle 6: Prioritise research imperatives

Farming First Launches New Guide to Food Security Initiatives Ahead of G8 Summit

June 21, 2010 No comments yet

Download Farming First’s Guide to Food Security Initiatives
Food security is an immediate and future priority for all countries worldwide. Since the food crisis erupted in 2008, a large number of global and regional food security initiatives have been launched or strengthened in response. While these developments are welcome, improving policy

Continue Reading
News, Principle 1: Safeguard natural resources, Principle 2: Share knowledge, Principle 3: Build local access and capacity, Principle 4: Protect harvests, Principle 5: Enable access to markets, Principle 6: Prioritise research imperatives

The Challenge of Making Agricultural Work in the Developing World

April 6, 2009 No comments yet

Sylvain Charlebois, a Canadian academic at the University of Regina, recently published a commentary piece in the Globe and Mail newspaper discussing how the developing world, especially Africa, needs to put in place a new agricultural system in order to work toward greater food security.
Charlebois argues that the current system for agricultural production needs to

Continue Reading
Principle 1: Safeguard natural resources

Conservation Agriculture

April 6, 2009 No comments yet

The combination of crop protection products and biotech crops has significantly helped advance conservation agriculture as a means of restoring and protecting soil and limiting erosion.
It is estimated that conservation agriculture can reduce soil erosion by 50 to 98 percent while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent through reduced oxidation of soil organic

Continue Reading


Our Twitter Followers