Agriculture

The Conservative Opposition raised broad concerns on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, about the Canadian government's reliance on the World Health Organization, questioning the accuracy of its data and its relationship with China during the COVID-19 crisis.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada want to see farmers hire unemployed Canadians to fill jobs that migrant workers usually take. But the reality is that most Canadians don’t want to work in orchards, says the BC Fruit Growers' Association.

A new bill sponsored by Rep. Chellie Pingree would enlist growers to help slow global warming by using their soil to sponge up carbon dioxide.

February is typically one of the wettest months in California, but the state is parched, and there’s no moisture in the forecasts

Climate, extreme weather, biodiversity, food and water crises could lead to ‘systemic collapse’

Research measuring the effort of climate change on bees suggests they are only half as likely to be found in areas where they were once common.

“The current system is killing our soil, and farmers have hardly any incentives to do anything different.”

More than one in four birds have been lost across diverse groups and habitats, in what researchers describe as a ‘wake-up call’

We went into the depths of the ocean with a scientist seeking to understand how frozen gas deposits might respond in a rapidly warming world.

Federal and provincial agriculture ministers say they understand the seriousness of the conclusions in the latest major UN climate report urging land-use reform and that they have a plan to tackle—but few are able to articulate just what it is.

A leaked draft of a report on climate change and land use, which is now being debated in Geneva by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), states that it will be impossible to keep global temperatures at safe levels unless there is also a transformation in the way the world produces food and manages land.

The Manitoba government is planning to recruit civil servants from Quebec who are concerned about a new law in the province banning religious symbols at work.

The House of Commons' ethics watchdog should never have approved a flight taken by Liberal cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc on a private aircraft owned by J.D. Irving, says an organization that advocates for greater government accountability.

Just days after saying Canada's ties with China have hit "rock bottom", China's ambassador is praising Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil as "a great friend."

As agricultural areas are snatched up and transformed into new housing developments, one farmer keeps fighting.