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Climate change worries Canadian farmers: poll

Data shows east-west split over climate, cost and government concerns

A poll released Dec. 11 suggests that Canadian farmers worry more about the impacts of climate change than they do about input costs and market prices for canola, corn, wheat and cattle.





Canada is getting warmer and wetter, mostly in the winter and in the North, says the research lead with Agri-Food Economic Systems.

Producers’ climate change strategy: mitigate or adapt?

An economist argues Canadian farmers should be adapting to climate change rather than focus strictly on mitigation

Glacier FarmMedia – Canadian farmers could benefit from climate change, says an Ontario agricultural economist. That’s not a popular perspective, since mitigating climate change and reducing emissions from food production […] Read more

Migrant workers clean fields in California’s Salinas Valley on March 30, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton)

Farmworkers in the US cultivate their own heat safety standards

Fair Food Program seeks to circumvent slow regulatory process

While regulations to protect agricultural workers from the heat have been held up by political wrangling, Gonzalo and her colleagues have spearheaded an alternate strategy. They seek to sidestep the slow and increasingly politicized government machinery and instead appeal directly to consumers and large brands.