Past Classes [New]
Note: this version of the Past Classes page uses the listings in the Events Calendar to output past NFUniversity events.
In case you missed our webinars, or want to catch up on previous NFUniversity classes, browse our NFUniversity library featuring all classes uploaded on our YouTube Channel.
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Too much IS too much! Confronting ecological overshoot
Date: April 10, 2025 12:00 pm
Join Bill Rees and Rick Munroe as they unpack the root cause of our environmental crises—ecological overshoot—and explore how communities can prepare for a sustainable future amidst the challenges of unchecked growth and resource depletion.
Read moreDo we have the Right to Repair in Canada?
Date: March 27, 2025 12:00 pm
The right to repair goes beyond the ability for consumers to repair electronics, appliances, and machinery. The right to repair is about independence and freedom from major manufacturers in order to have access to timely and inexpensive repairs, as well as operability between products that suit the needs of consumers and farm businesses.
Read moreGreen Grabbing & IPES-Food Land Squeeze Report
Date: March 13, 2025 12:00 pm
Explore how “green” initiatives like carbon offsets, biofuel crops, and tree plantations are driving land inequality and food insecurity. With insights from the IPES-Food Land Squeeze Report and expert Sofía Monsalve Suárez, you'll uncover the realities of land grabbing, its impacts on smallholder farmers, and innovative solutions being pursued globally, including in Colombia. Join us to dive into the urgent fight for land justice and sustainable agriculture.
Read moreAchieving Security and Justice through Collective Action and Solidarity
Date: February 27, 2025 12:00 pm
How do rising farm debts, land commodification, and market dependence create insecurity and undermine rural communities? Learn from Astra Taylor, writer, filmmaker and activist about how solidarity serves as both a principle and practice to achieve security and justice through collective action and interdependence.
Read moreSustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF): The NFU’s recent report
Date: February 13, 2025 12:00 pm
Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) are lower-emission, non-fossil-fuel energy sources for the world’s aircraft fleet—“drop-in” fuels that require no modifications to aircraft or engines. The proposal is to make SAFs largely
Read moreLives and Experiences of South Asian Migrant Agricultural Workers in British Columbia
Date: January 22, 2025 12:00 pm
Join Dr. Anushay Malik in this NFUniversity session as she chronicles the rise and fall of the Canadian Farmworkers Union (CFU) and examines its lasting impact. Through this exploration, uncover key insights into labor organizing, the role of migrant women, and the ongoing struggles faced by South Asian farmworkers in rural BC today.
Read moreExploring the LEAP Project – Leveraging Ecosystems to transform Agriculture on the Prairies
Date: January 9, 2025 12:00 pm
The NFU is a partner organization to the Leveraging Ecosystems to transform Agriculture on the Prairies (LEAP) Project at the University of Manitoba. The LEAP Project seeks to explore agricultural intensification strategies and design farming systems that use technology and nature-based tools to reduce GHG emissions, capture carbon, support biodiversity, and help agriculture mitigate and adapt to negative effects of climate change.
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Agroecology: Scaling up!
Date: April 11, 2024 8:30 am
Agroecology seeks to emulate nature in agro-ecosystems. It works in concert with natural flows and cycles and embraces diversity. It has been shown to enhance food production in small scale farming systems with low inputs and in the midst of climatic variability. But what does agroecology look like when scaled up to encompass diversified large crop fields and pastures? What does it look like when practiced in drier places? Does it imply or require larger social and economic shifts? Join us as we delve into how to think of agroecology on a larger scale.
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Colonial Roots of Modern Free Trade Agreements
Date: March 28, 2024 12:00 pm
This talk explores the colonial origins of modern international trade. Since the 1990s, the World Trade Organization, bilateral investment treaties, and free trade agreements have governed the international trade and investment regime based on free market ideology, but geopolitics, power relations, and corporate interests have shaped trade rules for over 500 years before they reached their current form.
Read moreWetlands Destruction: What We Lose, and Quantifying Emissions
Date: March 14, 2024 12:00 pm
Wetlands are crucial centers of biodiversity. But in many parts of the country we are draining, plowing, and destroying wetlands. And when we do, they release greenhouse gasses. How can we protect wetlands and make that protection a core part of efforts to reduce emissions and increase biodiversity?
Read moreBlack Farmer History
Date: February 22, 2024 12:00 pm
In the popular imagination, agriculture is often seen as a site of oppression and exploitation of Black people. However, Karina Vernon’s talk reveals agriculture as an important but under-celebrated site of resistance and freedom for Black people in Canada.
Read moreDecolonizing the Climate, Biodiversity and Food Crises: Critical Indigenous Approaches
Date: February 8, 2024 9:00 am
What do Indigenous perspectives tell us about interlocking Earth crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and food injustice, and ways to respond to these? How can work on climate, food and sustainability center Indigenous knowledges in ways that foreground Indigenous peoples' decolonial struggles for land defense and land rematriation, biocultural diversity restoration, and the restitution of land-based sovereignty--including food sovereignty?
Read moreSocial and Economic Impacts of Changing Land use and Land Tenure
Date: January 25, 2024 12:00 pm
Companies and individuals are increasingly seeking to buy land in Scotland to benefit from its ‘offsetting’ potential, while farmers and landowners are being asked to increase the positive environmental impact
Read moreLow-Hanging Fruit? What can farmers do to reduce emissions now?
Date: January 11, 2024 2:30 pm
Momentum is building for on-farm emissions reductions. Farmers face an array of options. But what is practical and cost-effective now? What four or five things should farmers consider in the
Read moreUpholding Indigenous Economic Relationships
Date: April 27, 2023 2:00 pm
What is the relationship between economic progress in the land now called Canada and the exploitation of Indigenous peoples? And what gifts embedded within Indigenous world views speak to miyo- pimâtisiwin ᒥᔪ ᐱᒫᑎᓯᐃᐧᐣ (the good life) and specifically to good economic relations? Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships draws on the knowledge systems of the nehiyawak ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐊᐧᐠ (Plains Cree people) to explain settler colonialism through the lens of economic exploitation.
Read moreNFUniversity—Agricultural GHG Emissions: The NFU’s New, Comprehensive Analysis
Date: March 10, 2022 12:00 pm
Join Darrin Qualman NFU Director of Climate Crisis Policy and Action for a deep dive into the sources of agricultural emissions. For the full description and registration, click here.
Read moreNFUniversity: The Canadian Grain Commission—How Does it Help Farmers?
Date: February 24, 2022 12:00 pm
For more information and to sign-up: click here.
Read moreNFUniversity: Climate Class—Can the Biosphere Fuel Us?
Date: February 10, 2022 12:00 pm
What are the implications of scaling up biofuel production? Can we do so while also feeding a growing population? What are the climate and environmental and human rights implications? Is
Read moreNFUniversity – Fossil-fuel-free farming? Solar power, electric tractors, and the future.
Date: April 8, 2021 12:00 pm
Thursday, April 8th, 12:00 – 1:30 PM Pacific NFUniversity is inviting you to register for our class on Fossil-Fuel-Free-Farming presented on Thursday, April 8, 2021, at noon Pacific / 1PM Mountain /
Read moreNFUniversity – Seed Activism: Global Perspectives
Date: March 25, 2021 12:00 pm
Thursday, March 25th, 12:00 – 1:30 PM Pacific NFUniversity is inviting you to register for our class on Seed Activism presented on Thursday, March 25, 2021, at noon Pacific /
Read moreAgroecology
Date: March 11, 2021 12:00 pm
NFUniversity is inviting you to register for our class on Agroecology presented on Thursday, March 11, 2021. Agroecology is a way of farming, and a way of thinking about farming. It takes seriously
Read moreRegenerative Agriculture, Emissions Reduction and Climate Resilience
Date: February 11, 2021 2:00 pm
NFUniversity is inviting you to register for our climate class on Regenerative agriculture, emissions reduction, and climate resilience presented on Thursday, February 11, 2021. Regenerative agriculture aims at whole-system productivity
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NFUniversity Climate Class: Understanding Emissions Trading, Carbon Markets, and Offsets
Date: December 10, 2020 12:00 pm
Join us for the inaugural NFUniversity Climate Class, where we will take a critical look at emissions trading and carbon markets. About this event Is it a good idea to
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