UN Rapporteur Gives Canada a Wakeup Call
The UN Special Rapporteur on Food Security, Olivier de Schutter, has ended his 11-day mission to Canada with a controversial report on Canada’s food system. Read More…
De Schutter Visits Canada
This weekend, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, arrives in Ottawa to begin a formal country mission to Canada. His 2010 report on Agroecology and the Right to Food has been widely quoted, encouraging cooperation on the dissemination and adoption of agro-ecological practices. While here, de Shutter and his team will look at several Canadian issues, including poverty, aboriginal peoples and the right to food, international development, and trade and investment. Read More…
The Elephant in the World Food Room
The debate about how to feed the world so often gets stuck in arguments and counter arguments about organic vs. conventional agriculture, defined in terms of which can produce more. It obscures an important fact: we already grow enough food to feed the world’s rising population, but we still have millions of hungry people. Why? Read More…
Bill Gates and the Hunger Game
“When Bill Gates speaks, the world tends to listen,” says Eric Reguly of the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business Magazine. But when it comes to agriculture, especially smallholder farmers in developing countries, Reguly suggests it’s Bill who needs to do some listening. This ROB article is definitely worth the read.
What a Difference a Decade Makes!
Former USC employee Friederike Knabe decided to visit Mali in December – 15 years after her last visit – to see how work was progressing. She brought back some fantastic before-and-after success stories that she has graciously offered to share. Read about her visit to a school arboretum and the awe-inspiring forest that awaited her.