Archive for July, 2009
Video: Banking Diversity
Seeds. These tiny packets of life carry a priceless inheritance. Each one of these seeds holds infinite potential; deep wells of genetic variety and adaptation nurtured over time. They are the seeds of our survival.
Watch this short video to learn more about the critical role that seed saving and seed diversity play in ensuring a stable global food supply, now and into the future.
Celebrating Lotta
USC Canada is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of our founder, Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova, with a new public service announcement (PSA). The PSA will appear on TV stations across the country this summer, but you can watch it here first!
Fixing the Food System
As the G8 meeting of the world’s most wealthy countries, including Canada, gathers this week in Italy, more than a billion people on the planet will face another day without enough healthy food to sustain themselves.
USC Canada and other members of the Canadian Food Security Policy Group have issued a call to action for Canada to take a leadership role in bringing attention to our broken global food system – and suggesting constructive ways to repair it.
Famine Fears
A stem rust blight threatens 80% of the world’s wheat harvest and is raising new fears of famine and exorbitant prices. North America’s wheat crops, with their focus on high yield varieties, could be particularly vulnerable to this airborn fungus. The world’s scientists are racing to find resistant replacement wheat varieties. Read more…
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