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Friday, April 15, 2011

15 April - First News Picks

Canada's Food Policy Project


In the Media

THE TIMES- From The Australian, Published April 15, 2011 12:00am.  Efforts to use genetically modified crops to fight malnutrition in Africa and Asia will receive a major vote of confidence from Bill Gates. The founder of Microsoft will today announce a huge investment in the development of improved varieties of rice and cassava. Through the...
GWYNNE DYER- Embassy, Published April 13, 2011 4:31 PM Why is India’s future brighter than China’s, especially in a warming world? Because India has more good agricultural land per person. That will get more and more important as the temperature goes up. more
JESSICA LEEDER — GLOBAL FOOD REPORTER, From Thursday's Globe and Mail, Published Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2011 8:53PM EDT All five of Canada’s federal political parties have promised to beef up food safety if elected in May, but their pledges aren’t enough to please a national medical policy group working to stoke the debate. In an...
TAVIA GRANT- From The Globe and Mail Blog, Published Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 6:23AM EDT.  Nearly half of Canadians say rising prices for gas and food are having a “significant” impact on their household budgets, a national poll released Tuesday shows. Food inflation in Canada is running at 2.1 per cent from a year ago, led...
JESSICA LEEDER — GLOBAL FOOD REPORTER From Monday's Globe and Mail, Published Sunday, Apr. 10, 2011 10:06PM EDT For the first time in Canadian electoral history, the edible is political. Each of the country’s federal parties have included strategies in their electoral platforms that, to varying degrees, highlight food as a distinct...
By Jim Barber/Napanee Guide Anyone who thinks that the Green Party is only interested in saving forests and stopping the depletion of the ozone layer, hasnt been paying attention. As with their more established counterparts in Western Europe, the Green Party of Canada has worked hard over the past few federal elections to develop a comprehensive...
Apr 9, 2011 11:01 AM - By: Staff The farming planks in the federal Conservatives' election platform include a plan to rework the approval processes for pesticides, veterinary drugs and other ag inputs to allow for "international equivalencies." Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched the party's full platform Friday in Mississauga,...
April 4, 2011 - SAMANTHA BUTLER, THE WHIG-STANDARD Local food can be an election issue and Kingston can become a local food system powerhouse if the federal government implements a local-food-first purchasing policy to increase demand, Kingston and the Islands' Green candidate Eric Walton said Saturday. Kingston has several government institutions...
THE TIMES- From The Australian, Published April 15, 2011 12:00am.  Efforts to use genetically modified crops to fight malnutrition in Africa and Asia will receive a major vote of confidence from Bill Gates. The founder of Microsoft will today announce a huge investment in the development of improved varieties of rice and cassava. Through the...
GWYNNE DYER- Embassy, Published April 13, 2011 4:31 PM Why is India’s future brighter than China’s, especially in a warming world? Because India has more good agricultural land per person. That will get more and more important as the temperature goes up. more
JESSICA LEEDER — GLOBAL FOOD REPORTER, From Thursday's Globe and Mail, Published Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2011 8:53PM EDT All five of Canada’s federal political parties have promised to beef up food safety if elected in May, but their pledges aren’t enough to please a national medical policy group working to stoke the debate. In an...
TAVIA GRANT- From The Globe and Mail Blog, Published Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 6:23AM EDT.  Nearly half of Canadians say rising prices for gas and food are having a “significant” impact on their household budgets, a national poll released Tuesday shows. Food inflation in Canada is running at 2.1 per cent from a year ago, led...
JESSICA LEEDER — GLOBAL FOOD REPORTER From Monday's Globe and Mail, Published Sunday, Apr. 10, 2011 10:06PM EDT For the first time in Canadian electoral history, the edible is political. Each of the country’s federal parties have included strategies in their electoral platforms that, to varying degrees, highlight food as a distinct...
By Jim Barber/Napanee Guide Anyone who thinks that the Green Party is only interested in saving forests and stopping the depletion of the ozone layer, hasnt been paying attention. As with their more established counterparts in Western Europe, the Green Party of Canada has worked hard over the past few federal elections to develop a comprehensive...
Apr 9, 2011 11:01 AM - By: Staff The farming planks in the federal Conservatives' election platform include a plan to rework the approval processes for pesticides, veterinary drugs and other ag inputs to allow for "international equivalencies." Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched the party's full platform Friday in Mississauga,...
April 4, 2011 - SAMANTHA BUTLER, THE WHIG-STANDARD Local food can be an election issue and Kingston can become a local food system powerhouse if the federal government implements a local-food-first purchasing policy to increase demand, Kingston and the Islands' Green candidate Eric Walton said Saturday. Kingston has several government institutions...

What's New

We appeared on Michael Pollan's radar yesterday -  author of 'In Defense of Food' and 'An Omnivore's Dilemma', Michael Pollan has successfully brought food issues to the minds and plates of thousands of readers.  His tweet raised an interesting question - what is the equivalent to the People's Food Policy in the USA??  Read more...
Agricultural issues such as trade, business risk management, environmental sustainability, food safety, and a National Food Strategy will be key topics of discussion for the Minister of Agriculture and opposition party critics during the Canadian Federation of Agriculture's national debate, scheduled for Mon. April 11, 2011. For more information,...
After 2 years of hard work, we are getting ready to launch the culmination of 3500 people talking about food - Resetting the Table: A People's Food Policy for Canada.  Stay tuned for to find out what Canadians want in their food system by signing up for our mailing list on the right hand of your screen.

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