food security

The interconnection between human and planetary health has never been more important.

Dubbed the zombie deer disease, CWD carries potential health concerns and far-reaching social, economic, and conservation impacts — especially for Indigenous populations that rely on hunting for traditional foods

In cities like Tucson, Ariz., neighbours are planting trees to provide shade — and food.

Of all the world’s crops, only 55 per cent of crop calories go directly toward people. The rest are allocated to biofuels or animal feed.

Merchants of false hope acknowledge the link between animal agriculture and climate change, yet firmly resist the call to reduce meat production and consumption.

Our carnivorous cravings — particularly in industrialized, beef-guzzling countries — are one reason the planet is warming as fast as it is.

Cities, towns, and regional governments outshine their national counterparts when reducing food emissions. In fact, municipalities are poised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions almost 35 per cent more than countries, say researchers. 

School food advocates fear the federal government might renege on its election promise to establish a national school food program.

Increasingly, land is shifting into the hands of billionaires.

Greenhouses are becoming more popular in northern communities as a way to supplement available groceries and improve food security.

Taylor Quinn is the CEO of Tailored Food, a social enterprise consultancy that partners with food entrepreneurs, farmers and market vendors to ensure nutritious and delicious low-cost food is available to families suffering from malnutrition. The hope is to end hunger by 2030.

The Competition Bureau began investigating alleged anti-competitive agreements between competitors to fix either the price of fresh commercial bread in January 2016.

The 10-day mission involves sling-shotting into deep space for a figure-8 manoeuvre around the dark side of the moon. If it is successful, Artemis II will mark the first time any human has ventured so far from Earth.

Nearly all the world's population could eat well from food produced within their countries’ borders — if countries wasted less food and ate less meat and sugar, researchers have found. In Canada, we would need less than a sixth of our farmland to feed everyone in the country a healthy and climate-friendly diet. 

More — not fewer — farmers provide a wide diversity of production methods, giving people the dignity of an honest choice about what they eat.