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Friends,Some short YouTube video clips extolling the benefits of agro-ecological farming from three of the world's leading experts on and proponents of agro-ecology: Olivier de Schutter, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food; Miguel Altieri, professor at the University of California Berkeley; and Eric Holt-Giménez, Executive Director of Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy. Below are the links. I'd be interest in any thoughts or comments you might have.Gary Olivier…See More

Inviting your comments on this issue.... The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) will cease to be farmers' organization under new legislation tabled by the federal government on October 18. "Farmers' hard-fought success in controlling their own marketing organization will be destroyed," said Allan, chairman of the CWB. The Government of Canada "is taking us all back in time: to the years when farmers were captive to grain companies….”The CWB is western Canadian farmers' marketing organization for wheat,…See More

A press release from the current UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter. De Schutter was appointed the Special Rapporteur on the right to food in May 2008 by the United Nations Human Rights Council. He is independent from any government or organization. This is the kind of work I'm involved in when I'm not on the farm. I'm sometimes skeptical about rights-based approaches because they tend to rely on States for the realization of the rights in question (e.g. the right…See More

Come to our 2nd official meeting, same location as the 1st. This will be a constructive gathering where seed growing projects and various tasks related to seed growing will be decided upon and allocated. Look out for the Workshop on Seed Growing in March...location & time to be announced soon!