How universities in B.C. are fighting food insecurity on campus
Emergency funds, food hubs and advocacy work are bringing food relief to students during COVID-19.
Farmers call on Ottawa to boost funding for green agriculture
On the heels of a $98-million funding commitment, Farmers for Climate Solutions has sent a recommendation to the federal government: set aside $300 million in the 2021 budget for agri-environmental spending.
Feds to pay dairy farmers $1.4B over next 3 years, speeding up trade deal compensation
Canadian dairy farmers will receive over $1.4 billion in the next three years from the federal government to compensate for recent trade deals.
Plant-based meats are on the rise. But are they sustainable?
Vegetables are becoming increasingly common in an unusual place: the grocery store meat aisle.
TikTokers to the rescue?
“These restaurants that are reaching out to me, they have websites, they have Instagram, but very few of them have TikTok,” Coleman says. TikTok is still a new enough social media platform that businesses haven’t yet fully embraced it, she says, but influencers have.
New B.C. cabinet includes more fisheries oversight, but advocates say it's not enough
Fisheries appear to be taking a more prominent role in B.C. Premier John Horgan’s new cabinet.
Compostable plastic is booming in Canada — but it may still end up in landfills
Bio-based plastics, most of them compostable to some degree, are proliferating across Canada. Yet millions of compostable cups, containers and bags will probably still end up in landfills. It’s a crisis driven, in part, by bad communication.
Corporations are devouring farmland
More than two-thirds of the world’s fields, ranches and orchards are owned by one per cent of its farmers, according to a report released Tuesday.
First Nations reawaken an ancestral practice: agriculture
As a kid, Delbert Good remembers coming home from a day of picking potatoes to find a meal made from the fruits of his family’s garden.
Biggest hurdle for fish harvesters is buying into the industry, study finds
When Nathan Bennett looks at B.C.’s fisheries, he sees problems — and not only those associated with low stocks. He also worries about the people who catch the fish.
Ottawa wants your ideas on how to combat food waste
Each year, fields of Canadian produce are plowed under due to cancelled orders. But that may be about to change.
Building a farm — and food security — where a northern highway ends
“There’s this narrative in Prince Rupert that you can’t grow food here because we don’t have a lot of flat land, and whatever is flat is muskeg or bedrock, and it rains all the time,” said Alexie Stephens, program manager in the Skeena region for Ecotrust Canada. “That’s something we want to change.”
How a new organic farming app is trying to weed out paperwork
LiteFarm, a farm management software developed by the University of British Columbia, aims to help organic farmers keep track of data and renew their organic certifications.
Buying food online could become a post-COVID norm, researchers say
About 30 per cent of Canadians have bought groceries online in the past six months, and online food sales have surged since the pandemic started, according to a new study by researchers at Dalhousie University.
How one Indigenous farmer in the north is teaching others to feed the need
Jacob Beaton wouldn’t be a farmer without lettuce. Lots of lettuce.