Food & Agriculture

Prices for major commodity foods rose from June to July, says the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s latest Food Price Index, while Oxford Economics reports food price inflation due to extreme weather in Europe and the United Kingdom.

A document outlining a course for Canada’s agriculture policies emphasizes economic growth and resilience, but Canada still needs a “major overhaul” of how it helps farmers with business risks, says the leader of a national farming coalition.

Worsening droughts and heatwaves are pushing Canadian farmers to switch to new practices to keep moisture in the soil and protect livestock.

New AI-driven forecasts can tell you when dangerous weather is coming, Prof. Catherine Nakalembe writes for Yale Climate Connections. However, the barrier to saving lives is rarely data accuracy, but the absence of the policy infrastructure required to act on it.

In a feature interview with The Energy Mix, philanthropist Joannah Lawson finds hope in recent gains in the energy transition and regenerative agriculture—and stresses an intergenerational duty to help those solutions succeed and scale up.

Misinformation about renewable energy fuels local pushback to proposed energy installations and could threaten farmers’ livelihoods.

Canadians see energy efficiency is an essential tool to deal with the rising cost of living, and more than three-quarters say it’s up to federal and provincial governments to help households seize the opportunity, Abacus Data reported late last week.

Two major research institutions got a new lease on life but more than 900 deep-ocean monitoring units are being removed as Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle climate science made their way through the U.S. Congress and court system.

A collaboration between the North Shore Mi’kmaq Tribal Council and Ireland-based BNRG Renewables, the 150-megawatt solar farm would feature agrivoltaics—shared uses that combine solar panels with grazing sheep, cultivating blueberries, and producing honey.

The war on Iran has sent fertilizer prices surging nearly 50%, but it's only the latest reason farmers in Canada and abroad are eyeing green ammonia: a fossil fuel-free fertilizer they could make themselves, right on the farm.

A new United Nations report maps how extreme heat is tearing through every layer of the global food system—and mostly overlooks the people at the heart of it.

There’s little information about what happens to soil during a flood, or what to do when a farm’s soil is eroded or covered with material from elsewhere—its nutrients washed away and microbial communities disrupted. The blind spot is becoming more of a liability as storms like Helene become more common. 

Ottawa is missing how community food systems can strengthen resilience, reduce supply chain risks and anchor national security at the local level.

Fuels used by billions of households to transport, store, and cook food staples, as well as the fertilizers and their fossil-based precursors used to grow those staples, have been hostages to the conflagration in the Gulf and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.