Agriculture

Six of 11 key executives for Canada's largest pesticide and agrichemical lobby group held senior government positions with this country’s pesticide and food safety regulators for years before starting their current positions, a new analysis reveals.

A group of migrant agricultural workers employed in Abbotsford, B.C. have become the first in Canada to unionize in nearly two decades. 

The National Farmers Union (NFU), a grassroots organization advocating for farmers across Canada, is calling for stronger heat protections for its workers.

With this action, Attorney General Dana Nessel becomes the latest public official to set sights on industry for harms it is alleged to have not only knowingly inflicted on the state, but also obfuscated.

The B.C. government is pairing up with agriculture groups in a bid to help ranchers and farmers prepare early as the province anticipates a second year of extreme drought as the climate crisis advances.

There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It isn’t entirely flooded.

A group of researchers and conservationists is trying to bolster the soil health of hundreds of farms in Ontario's Greenbelt to help alleviate climate change. 

The Liberal government is setting aside $2.4 billion in the upcoming budget to build capacity in artificial intelligence, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Sunday.

Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture’s Living Labs project aims to help farmers better tackle climate change.

"Assuming all renewable development locates on (some of Alberta's best) land, the percentage of (such) agricultural land loss is estimated to be less than one per cent by 2041," says a report released Wednesday.

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.

The popular narrative suggests that tackling methane emissions is the “low-hanging fruit” in the climate-solutions toolbox. The belief that turning off the taps on this “super-pollutant” could “buy us time” to address the climate crisis is widespread, shared by politicians, journalists, and even some scientists.

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

Places that experienced more pollution from wildfires and farming had higher rates of dementia, the University of Michigan research found. Climate change is boosting those odds.

What drove Doug Ford's Ontario government to become so captured by the power and influence of the development industry?