The agriculture and agri-food sectors are, perhaps, the most complex, diverse and challenging sectors to work with on sustainability. There are several efforts underway in Canada, some national and some regional, some focused on smaller-scale farms and some with large industrial agri-food interests, but there is not a cohesive sense of the endgame. What does sustainable, climate-resilient, profitable farming, at scale, look like?
On 11th December 2024, while replying to a question in Pakistan’s National Assembly, the federal finance minister admitted for the first time that since 2019, and while under an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, gas prices increased by a record 840% and electricity tariffs rose by over 110%.
Policymakers must act as extreme weather events put more pressure on food inflation and production worldwide
Your morning – and afternoon – coffee is the latest staple threatened by climate chaos: the price of quality arabica beans shot to its highest level in almost 50 years last week amid fears of a poor harvest in Brazil.
Generating power but flooding land loved by locals
After 11 weeks, the Site C dam reservoir in northeastern B.C. is now fully filled.
B.C. Hydro announced the process was complete on Nov. 7, having started in August.
One electricity generating unit has already started feeding into B.C.'s power grid, and another five are set to come online between now and the fall of 2025, increasing the province's power production capacity by an estimated eight per cent.
