Policy: 2010

Losing Our Grip How a Corporate Farmland Buy-up, Rising Farm Debt, and Agribusiness Financing of Inputs Threaten Family Farms and Food Sovereignty
Losing Our Grip How a Corporate Farmland Buy-up, Rising Farm Debt, and Agribusiness Financing of Inputs Threaten Family Farms and Food Sovereignty

The land on which our food is grown is, to a significant extent, owned by local citizens and the families who work that land. This family farm model is widely

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NFU presentation to the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation
NFU presentation to the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation

Over the last two years, the has met with MASC and voiced concerns over the potential liability for farmers as a result of the weakening of the regulatory powers of

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NFU Briefs 2010
NFU Briefs 2010

June 7, 2010Losing Our Grip How a Corporate Farmland Buy-up, Rising Farm Debt, and Agribusiness Financing of Inputs Threaten Family Farms and Food SovereigntyThe land on which our food is grown is, to a significant extent, owned by local citizens and the families who work that land. This family farm model is widely supported—by farmers and non-farmers alike. But this model is under serious threat of extinction.

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NFU response to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Environmental Impact Statement on Roundup Ready Alfalfa
NFU response to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Environmental Impact Statement on Roundup Ready Alfalfa

() of Canada welcomes the opportunity to file comments in relation to Docket No. APHIS-2007-0044, specifically the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) released December 14, 2009 by the United States Department

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NFU Comments regarding Health Canada’s proposal to permit the use of a GM-derived enzyme, Asparaginase, as a food additive
NFU Comments regarding Health Canada’s proposal to permit the use of a GM-derived enzyme, Asparaginase, as a food additive

() welcomes the opportunity to comment on the proposal by Health Canada to amend the Food and Drug Regulations. Specifically, Health Canada seeks to permit the use of Asparaginase in

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NFU Brief to Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) on Crop Insurance in Alberta
NFU Brief to Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) on Crop Insurance in Alberta

While the need for some form of crop insurance had been apparent since agricultural settlement began in western Canada, it was not until 1939 that the Prairie Farm Assistance Act

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