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... relations legislation governing agricultural workers in Ontario - Whether s. 2(d) requires legi... silent on questions of economic and social policy, this Court may not intervene on such matters in t... to protect the family farm and farm production/viability. The minimal impairment branch of the Oa...
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When many observers view an agricultural vista, they see rural. And, when many observers think rural, they envision an agricultural landscape," the study says. "Historically, this has been a reasonable set of observations. As well, the share of the predominantly rural workforce employed by agriculture has been declining in almost every OECD country as technology steps in to replace labour. In Canada, the share declined from 13 percent in 1981 to 9 percent in 2001. "These observations suggest that a focus on agricultural policy is missing the vast majority of rural residents," [Ray Bollman] says. Contrast that objective against what MAFRI says on its website: "Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives... strives to preserve and strengthen our family farms and rural communities, a...
... 20 per cent of Canada's agricultural production now takes place inside of urban areas. Yet policy-...
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... the development of the Growing Forward policy, the BRM programs have been updated and the Schedu... on agricultural products that are in production (i.e. crops prior to harvest or livestock), in add...
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The not-so-benign neglect of agricultural issues that stems from this massive urban migration comes at a time of great change and stress for agricultural producers. Traditional commodity producers are being squeezed between intensifying global competition and increasing input costs for fertilizers and fuel. Political support for agricultural subsidies is waning in the face of WTO pressure and the need to open markets in developed countries to producers in developing countries. Political support for agricultural subsidies is being whittled away by demographic change. Part of the answer must be to reframe the policy debate, to provide more powerful arguments to urbanites about why they have a continuing stake in a healthy agricultural sector and rural communities. Such arguments are more ...
... movement towards organics and local production is growing. At the same time, the agrarian country...
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... action, and if so whether there are policy considerations that limit liability. (17) Because ..., (151) the OCA found that the Agricultural Employees Protection Act (AEPA) (152) did not prov... was the practicality of requiring production, something not at issue when retrieval required on...
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... will face in tackling the entrenched agricultural trade barriers that exist on both sides of the Atl... entry of business persons, competition policy, labour, and the environment. (6) The results of t... of output as it is coupled to annual production and/or prices. . Historically, the EU has been a m...
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This is naive, as potatoes aren't the only regulated commodity in Manitoba. There are boards controlling the supply of grain, eggs, milk and other products and the support for them among the agricultural community depends on the farmer, his or her location and the commodity in question. While artisanal production of everything from heritage breeds of chicken to raw-milk cheeses to heirloom vegetables is booming in Quebec, B.C. and Ontario, it remains in its infancy in Manitoba, despite our advantages in terms of soil and sunshine and arable land. Agricultural policy, according to analyses by the likes of Michael Pollan and others, has led to a North America-wide obesity epidemic, the U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil and the destabilization of markets in developing countries. And th...
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... that the dominant model of agricultural development has not succeeded in eradicating pover... in national and international agricultural policy introduced throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. S...," which emphasizes maximizing food production and enhancing food-access opportunities, exacerbat...
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The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy was a postwar effort to ensure sufficient food reserves, driven in large part by haunting memories of starvation. Even the U.S. participated in removing surplus grain stocks from the market and paying its farmers to store grain until the mid-1980s when it unleashed a full frontal assault on the EU's practice of dumping its by-then mountainous surpluses at fire sale prices. The theory behind that strategy is that farmers will respond to 'market signals' just like other industries and ramp up production when it is necessary and scale back accordingly. It's turning out that system doesn't work so well either. Economists and free trade advocates have been quick to quantify the benefits of open markets, and criticize any initiatives to protect ...
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Contrary to her view that the re-branding of the UK's Ministry for Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF) as the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the mid-1990s was a deliberate attempt to develop an integrated vision of the rural future, it was, in fact, a response to the public's loss of faith in MAFF following nearly a decade of successive food scares (salmonella, listeria, E. Coli, BSE etc.). The result was to divorce the responsibility for food safety from those with responsibility for food production. While Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada may have been slow to catch onto the idea that the farm and rural economies are interdependent, or more generously that it has never had a mandate for the rural economy, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives has lon...
... in Saturday's Free Press, How agricultural development affects urban policy, misses two impor...
