Agriculture Archives

Canadians desperately need help to combat food inflation

by Sylvain Charlebois | Jun 28, 2022 | Business, FREE content, Life, Politics/Law, World | 0

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: The Trudeau government needs to think through some of its ill-timed policies that will make food even more expensive

How to win the war against global famine

by Roslyn Kunin | Jun 7, 2022 | Business, Environment, Life, Politics/Law, PREMIUM content, World | 0

ROSLYN KUNIN: We need to stop feeding people food to animals and cars, apply technology to food production and learn to love GMOs

The perfect playbook for a global food security crisis

by Sylvain Charlebois | May 31, 2022 | Business, Environment, FREE content, Politics/Law, Putin's War, World | 0

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Events unfolding worldwide create the perfect playbook for a global food crisis: climate change, pandemic, war and nationalistic hoarding

Don’t blame climate change for the world’s food shortage

by Terry Etam | May 30, 2022 | Business, Environment, FREE content, Politics/Law, World | 0

TERRY ETAM: Cheap, reliable energy enables modern farming, through ubiquitous fuel and abundant fertilizer. Both are in short supply

It’s time for Canada’s protectionist barriers to fall

by Krystle Wittevrongel | May 26, 2022 | Business, FREE content, Life, Politics/Law, Your Money | 0

KRYSTLE WITTEVRONGEL and GABRIEL GIGUERE: A 2016 study found that supply management pushed up to 190,000 Canadians into poverty. It is time for it to go

Uptick in avian flu cases poses little threat to humans

by Special to Troy Media | May 22, 2022 | Environment, FREE content, Health | 0

HEALTH: Risk of transmission to people and pets is very low unless you’re regularly in contact with birds

Wheat makes the world go round

by Pat Murphy | May 20, 2022 | Books, Business, Life, PREMIUM content, Putin's War, World | 0

PAT MURPHY/BOOKS: Wheat is one of the world’s staple crops, and Ukraine and Russia are top exporters. And some countries are vulnerable to supply disruptions

Canada has its own baby formula problem

by Sylvain Charlebois | May 19, 2022 | Business, Eye on Ontario, FREE content, Health, Life | 0

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: The largest baby formula plant in Canada, Canada Royal Milk owned by China’s Feihe International, ships all of its products to China

Saving the planet from climate disaster, one bite at a time

by Sylvain Charlebois | Apr 7, 2022 | Business, Environment, FREE content, Life, World | 0

SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: A new UN report estimates that almost half of 2050 GHG emissions related to food could be cut through things like eating less animal protein