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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announces closure of research operations, jobs cuts Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says it has identified savings opportunities and is closing seven research operations.

This is not how you keep your elbows up!

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announces closure of research operations, jobs cuts

#Food #Canada #ElbowsUp #CdnPoli #CanAg #Agriculture #CanadianFarmers

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The Right to Save Seed | Watershed Sentinel Canada’s proposed changes to Plant Breeders’ Rights regulations threaten farmers’ ability to save seed, increasing corporate control.

The Right to Save Seed

Proposed changes would further erode this ancient practice

watershedsentinel.ca/article/righ...

#Canada #CdnPoli #CanAg #CanadianAgriculture #Agriculture #Farming #Farmers #SeedSaving

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RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans

#Roundup #Glyphosate #FoodSafety #Food #Agriculture #Environment #CanadianAgriculture #CanAg

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Forever young? The crisis of generational renewal on Canada's farms | Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation Scholarly and community articles about food and food systems

Forever young? The crisis of generational renewal on Canada's farms

Darrin Qualman
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Annette Aurélie Desmarais
Sharada Srinivasan

#CanAg #Agriculture #Canada #Farmers #YoungFarmers

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess

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NOTHING TO HIDE: HOW GOVERNMENTS JUSTIFY THE ADOPTION OF AG‐GAG LAWS 

Since 2019, several Canadian provinces have adopted so-called “ag-gag” laws designed to prevent hidden-camera investigations on farms and meat processing facilities. How do governments across Canada justify ag-gag laws as serving the public interest? To what extent do agricultural industry interests shape government adoption of ag-gag laws?

Anelyse M.Weiler and Tayler Zavitz
Canadian Review of Sociology
With images of Weiler & Zavitz both holding chickens.

NOTHING TO HIDE: HOW GOVERNMENTS JUSTIFY THE ADOPTION OF AG‐GAG LAWS Since 2019, several Canadian provinces have adopted so-called “ag-gag” laws designed to prevent hidden-camera investigations on farms and meat processing facilities. How do governments across Canada justify ag-gag laws as serving the public interest? To what extent do agricultural industry interests shape government adoption of ag-gag laws? Anelyse M.Weiler and Tayler Zavitz Canadian Review of Sociology With images of Weiler & Zavitz both holding chickens.

NOTHING TO HIDE: HOW GOVERNMENTS JUSTIFY THE ADOPTION OF AG‐GAG LAWS

See pages 12 of CAFS Spring 2025 Newsletter for more!

#Agriculture #BigAg #CanAg #AgGagLaws #Canada

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Cover image of “Basic Income & Resilient Food Systems in Canada: Findings from Outreach Workshops A research report (2025)” with icons of institutions that provided support: Ecotrust Canada, Bishop’s University, SSHRCC, Queen’s University, Lakehead University, Dalhousie University, Coalition Canada Basic Income, and Government of Canada.

Cover image of “Basic Income & Resilient Food Systems in Canada: Findings from Outreach Workshops A research report (2025)” with icons of institutions that provided support: Ecotrust Canada, Bishop’s University, SSHRCC, Queen’s University, Lakehead University, Dalhousie University, Coalition Canada Basic Income, and Government of Canada.

BASIC INCOME & RESILIENT FOOD SYSTEMS IN CANADA

Find the report and more on page 10 of our Spring 2025 Newsletter!

#BasicIncome #Canada #FoodSystems #CanAg #Farmers #Fishers #FoodSecurity

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An aspirational school lunch on a tray with cutlery and glassware and linens and a well-balanced meal. From the cover of Vol. 9 No. 3 (2022): Momentum is building for a school food program for Canada in which you’ll find “‘It is the Wild West out here’ Prairie farmers’ perspectives on farmland investment and land concentration.”

An aspirational school lunch on a tray with cutlery and glassware and linens and a well-balanced meal. From the cover of Vol. 9 No. 3 (2022): Momentum is building for a school food program for Canada in which you’ll find “‘It is the Wild West out here’ Prairie farmers’ perspectives on farmland investment and land concentration.”

Financialization

#Farmland #Financialization #Concentration #RuralCommunity #CommunityFinancing #LocalInvestment #Cooperatives #SustainableFood #FoodSystems #SupplyChain #CanAg

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Are you a #FoodStudies academic? Or a #FoodActivist? Dig #FoodScholarship? Into #OpenScholarship?

Let us know if you belong in this starter pack!

#Canada #Canadian #CanAg #Agriculture #Nutrition #FoodMovements #FoodPolitics #FoodSovereignty

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Lemon and other citrus fruit on a white and blue surface.

Lemon and other citrus fruit on a white and blue surface.

Optimizing stewardship of the land?
Digital agriculture and the ideology of optimization in Canadian policy and media discourse

Sarah Marquis @smarquis.bsky.social

#DigitalAg #DigitalAgriculture #Fertilizer #SustainableAg #Agriculture #CanAg

canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

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Lemon and other citrus fruit on a white and blue surface.

Lemon and other citrus fruit on a white and blue surface.

Reflections from first-generation small-scale vegetable farmers

Richard S. Bloomfield
Deishin Lee

#Agriculture #Canada #CanAg #Policy #FirstGen #Farmers #LocalFood #SmallScale #YoungFarmers #NewFarmers

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Lemon and other citrus fruit on a white and blue surface.

Lemon and other citrus fruit on a white and blue surface.

Optimizing stewardship of the land?
Digital agriculture and the ideology of optimization in Canadian policy and media discourse

Sarah Marquis @smarquis.bsky.social

#DigitalAg #DigitalAgriculture #Nitrogen #SustainableAg #Agriculture #CanAg

canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

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Lemon and other citrus fruit on a white and blue surface

Lemon and other citrus fruit on a white and blue surface

Reflections from first-generation small-scale vegetable farmers

Richard S. Bloomfield
Deishin Lee

#Agriculture #Canada #CanAg #Policy #FirstGen #Farmers #LocalFood #SmallScale #YoungFarmers #NewFarmers

canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cf...

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Excited to read this and the ensuing thread attached to it. Love constructive debate and conversation. I wonder what the ratio is in Ontario/Canada? #ontAg #CanAg

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Red currants

Red currants

Dig into agriculture!

#LiteratureReview
#OpenAccess
#KnowledgeSharing

#Agriculture #FoodStudies #CanAg #UrbanAg #FeministTheory #CommunitySupportedAgriculture #FoodSovereignty #GenerationalRenewal #TradeAgreements #Farmers #FoodPolicy #HigherEd
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A farm worker picking zucchini

A farm worker picking zucchini

Workers in a recent study said they feel exploitable because complaining could cost them their jobs and lead to deportation and loss of future employment in Canada.

#Ontario #BritishColumbia #Canada #MigrantWorkers #Housing #CanAg #Farmworkers

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A graphic on “Migrants’ Intersecting Experiences with Housing in Agriculture” which outlines the common housing concerns, common barriers to reporting, and desired changes.

A graphic on “Migrants’ Intersecting Experiences with Housing in Agriculture” which outlines the common housing concerns, common barriers to reporting, and desired changes.

Housing, health equity, and global capitalist power: Migrant farmworkers in Canada

Find the #OpenAccess article on page 11 of our Fall 2024 Newsletter!

#Ontario #BritishColumbia #Canada #MigrantWorkers #Housing #CanAg #HealthEquity #Farmworkers #Overcrowding

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The Fall 2024 Canadian Association for Food Studies Newsletter is out now!

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#AcademicSky #FoodStudies #FoodEvents #FoodPolitics #FoodSovereignty #FoodMovement #FoodSystems #Governance #FoodSecurity #SchoolLunches #SeedSaving #AgriculturalWorkers #CanAg

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