Reading Time: 4 minutes London, Ont., adopted Canada’s first stand-alone Urban Agriculture Strategy in 2017. Yet, almost eight years later, many of the strategy’s goals remain unrealized.
Growing pains: An Ontario city’s urban agriculture efforts show good policy requires real capacity
World food prices fall for third month in November, UN’s FAO says
Reading Time: 2 minutes World food commodity prices fell for a third consecutive month in November, with all major staple foods except cereals showing a decline, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said.
Canada’s Food Price Report shows meat, pantry goods prices expected to rise “a lot” in 2026
Reading Time: 4 minutes Food prices are 27 per cent higher now than they were in 2020, the new Canada’s Food Price Report shows. Meat prices are particularly to blame for the rise.
Trade tensions boosted confidence in Canadian food system, report shows
Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. tariff threats have boosted Canadians’ view of the nation’s food system according to the 2025 public trust report from the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity. Trust in Canadian farmers remains high but has been eclipsed by trust in scientists.
CFIA raw poultry policy to tighten food safety
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian poultry slaughterhouses will have to test carcasses for pathogens before chilling when the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s new pre-chill policy comes into force Dec. 1, 2025.
Canada’s retail sales shrink as tariffs bite, June expected to improve
Food and beverage saw declines, led declines in beer, wine and liquor sales and declining convenience store transations
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada's retail sales shrank by 1.1 per cent in May as consumers curtailed car purchases and spent less at supermarkets, convenience stores and on alcohol, data showed on Thursday.
World food prices dip in May as cereal, sugar and vegoils drop
FAO forecasts record global cereal production in 2025
Reading Time: 2 minutes Global food commodity prices declined in May, driven by marked drops in cereal, sugar, and vegetable oil prices, the United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday.
OPINION: Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council a collaborative approach to strengthening food systems
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council was initially described as a promising example of government engagement. But both it and the Food Policy for Canada have yet to reach their full potential.
Sask. creamery turns ice cream dream into reality
Sometimes your childhood dream can come true — and turn a delicious profit
Reading Time: 8 minutes It all started with a scoop of blueberry cheesecake ice cream from a creamery in Sicamous, B.C., more than ten years ago. About 13 years old, John Pruim was on a family road trip back to the province where he had spent his early years when the taste of farm fresh ice cream stirred something […] Read more
The infrastructure gap in Canada’s agriculture and food sector
What is the ‘Missing Middle,’ and how can your investment in venture capital fix it?
Reading Time: 9 minutes There is a “Missing Middle” in Canada’s ag and food sector — a kind of bottleneck caused by how the country’s mid-sized ventures are getting swallowed up by the few large corporations that supply most of the food that Canadians buy. As problems go, this one might seem unimportant or maybe even irrelevant, but for […] Read more
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