food sovereignty

The Nuu-chah-nulth Youth Warriors spent three days in early July constructing a traditional clam garden for the Huu-ay-aht community as part of a broader project to strengthen coastal First Nations’ culture, connections, food security and climate resilience. 

When Jacob Beaton quit his business consulting job and left Vancouver for a homestead in northern B.C., he didn't plan on the farm becoming a hub for reviving Indigenous food sovereignty.

As founder and CEO of AgriTech North, Ben Feagin is bringing fresh produce and food security to northern Ontario.

The movement for Black food sovereignty in Toronto is “a blooming flower” that Hansel Igbavboa and others highlight in an upcoming documentary that also shows the mountain of unseen work behind it.

Dozens of young Canadians are sounding the climate alarm in an open letter to Canadian politicians.

How Canada's most populous city is fighting food insecurity and climate change at the same time

Food sovereignty puts the voices and concerns of small farmers — most of whom are women — centre stage, along with fishers, Indigenous Peoples and others marginalized by the global food system, write Eric Chaurette and Gisèle Yasmeen.

For Lisa Girbav and Stephen Kingshott, an ideal date probably involves harvesting seaweed and seafood in northern B.C.’s chilly waters — and then writing about it.

When the pandemic hit last spring, B.C.’s seed farmers experienced a tsunami of demand for seeds as the number of home gardeners surged and major U.S. seed companies stopped shipping to Canada. For many, growing and cleaning enough seed to fulfil the flood of orders was near impossible.

On Monday, federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced $1.6 million for Agriculture in the Classroom Canada, an organization that works with schools across the country to implement food and agriculture into curriculums.

A fight over of a parcel of federally-controlled land on the outskirts of Canada's largest city pits food-security advocates against an influx of right-leaning, development-friendly politicians.