Statistics Canada calls this annual consumption round up "Food Available For Consumption" rather than simply food consumption, because not everything produced or imported is consumed — some of it is discarded as...
Read MoreGlobal food woes are being called a crisis. Unlike other disasters, these problems didn't sneak up on us.A chronic food shortfall among the world's poorest people has existed for decades, sending 800 million people to...
Read MoreUPI Energy has invited the media to attend its E85 launch event, to commemorate the opening of the third E85 publicly accessible fuelling facility in Canada. The other two E85 locations are also UPI Energy gas bars in...
Read MoreHere's a news release from the International Federation of Agricultural Producers about the connection between farming and biodiversity. It's being issued today, the International Day for Biological Diversity. * *...
Read MoreHere's a news release from the federal government about how poorly we're faring on the international negotiation frontier re: supply managed commodities. * * *OTTAWA, Ontario, May 20, 2008 – The...
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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.