In this week’s Urban Cowboy column, I’m tying together a new OECD report on the potential for biotechnology with a movement in Canada to unite agricultural policy and health policy. Canada has a unique opportunity to bring it all together — proactively, before it gets pulled into d0ing so by the rest of the world.
OWEN ROBERTS
Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.