Marie-Claude Bibeau

The federal government is spending another $30 million to help people at risk of going hungry.

The government is planning to plant up to 320 million trees a year to meet the prime minister’s target to put an extra two billion trees in the ground by 2030.

Help is on the way for Canadian farmers and ranchers severely affected by this year's drought.

Farmers are calling for emergency disaster relief as drought ravages crops and pastures across the Prairie provinces and beyond.

Last week, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced up to $21.4 million to enhance the Youth Employment and Skills Program.

The federal government has a new agreement with the provinces that gives upgrades to a program that protects farmers against large declines in income.

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.

The 23-member council will guide the federal government on food-related issues ranging from from farms to food insecurity and food waste.

"Canadians deserve to feel confident that their seafood is safe, honestly labelled and legally caught,” says Sayara Thurston of Oceana Canada.

The funds were announced at a virtual news conference Friday, as Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau detailed the third round of financial support under the Emergency Food Security Fund.

Canadian dairy farmers will receive over $1.4 billion in the next three years from the federal government to compensate for recent trade deals.

A third Canadian canola exporter has received a non-compliance notice from China over quality concerns, the federal agriculture minister said on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, the latest development in an escalating feud with the Asian country.

The family of a Quebec woman who went missing with her Italian friend in West Africa last month says it finally feels federal authorities are taking the case seriously following several frustrating days seeking answers from Ottawa.

Canada will continue to encourage other countries to offer more family planning services including contraception and abortion because they're key to fighting poverty, the country's international development minister said on Sunday, November 11, 2018.

When G7 finance and international development ministers convene in British Columbia next week, Canada hopes the meetings will generate fresh ideas on how aid money can be leveraged to entice the private sector to boost investments in poorer parts of the world.