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  1. Biodiversity is the best defence against corn pests
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Farmers' first line of defence against pests is the ecosystem in and around their fields. With widespread or indiscriminate use of pesticides essential biodiversity is lost - and the result is more frequent and serious infestations, and a decline in food security.
  2. Breakfast of Biodiversity
    The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction

    Resource Type: Book
  3. Building a Solidarity City
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A Solidarity City is the creation of a community that rejects a system that engenders poverty and anguish, not solely for immigrants and refugees, but also for other Montrealers confronting these same realities.
  4. Canadian Federation of Agriculture
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Pilot Copy, February 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
    The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
  6. Class Struggle at the Waistline
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The obesity rate has soared not because lower income earners lack the knowledge to eat wisely, but because they have lost power over the economic conditions of their lives.
  7. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  8. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  9. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  10. Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
  11. Connexions Library: Food Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on food.
  12. Corporations profiting out of food crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The small group of food multinationals that monopolise the world food market are positioning themselves to take full advantage of the crisis: the latest food price hikes threaten to drive more people back into hunger.
  13. Could urban farming provide a much-needed oasis in the Tulsa food desert?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Oklahoma is one of the most food insecure states in the US, where families struggle to buy enough healthy food. Locals are trying to ease poverty with community farming, but face difficulty in a city with a complex racial history
  14. CUSO-VSO
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  15. Ecological Agriculture in Saskatchewan
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
  16. Emmanuel International Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
    Emmanuel International Canada is one of seven affiliates of Emmanuel Relief and Rehabilitation International. EICanada's programs aim to build the self-reliance and dignity of those involved in developing world.
    Emmanuel International Canada is currently operating in Brazil, Haiti, Malawi, the Philippines, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
  17. Fair Shares of Food
    Agriculture in an Age of Gadgets

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Concern over lagging production has prompted a search for technological tricks that might revolutionize food production.
  18. The Food Bubble
    How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
  19. How Agriculture Can Provide Food Security Without Destroying Biodiversity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    According to conventional wisdom, the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte has achieved something impossible. So, too, has the island of Cuba. They are feeding their hungry populations largely with local, low-input farming methods that enhance the environment rather than degrade it. They have achieved this, moreover, at a time of rising food prices when others have mostly retreated from their own food security goals.
  20. Israel's starvation diet for Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Israel’s calculating of daily caloric needs shows how it manages the lives of Palestinians in Gaza in almost microscopic detail.
  21. Listeria Outbreak Alarms Walkerton Survivors
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Governments should have learned from the mistakes that led to the tragedy in Walkerton. Food security and public safety should never be placed on the chopping block in the name of cost cutting.
  22. Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  23. Nutrition Experts and Information in the Sources Directory
    Resource Type: Website
  24. Ontario Public Health Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  25. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
    Public Safety

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
  26. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
    What are we eating?

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2018
    What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
    For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
    How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
    A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
  27. Our Veggie Gardens Won't Feed us in a Real Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Prudence would dictate that we heed this year's events as a warning and get serious about making preparations for worse years. Literal cycles of "feast or famine" have marked agriculture since its birth and sooner or later we will experience significant shortages here in the US, if not from the weather, than from war or lack of resources.
  28. The Politics of Food and Poverty
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The global food crisis is tightly connected to global poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers.
  29. Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2018
    Food production in the age of climate change and corporate control.
  30. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
  31. The State of the World Atlas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  32. Stuffed and Starved
    Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    This investigation into the global food market postulates that the current state of population health, where one billion people are overweight and one billion people are starving exemplifies the disequilibrium resulting from the liberalization of agriculture in the developing world by the forces of globalization and the policies of the IMF and World Bank.
  33. This is about systems – the food system, the capitalist system and the socialist system
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    This is about systems – the food system, the capitalist system and the socialist system.
  34. Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
    New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
  35. Valuing Folk Crop Varieties for Agroecology and Food Security
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Agricultural sustainability consists of long-term productivity, not short-term increase of yield. Ecological agriculture, which seeks to understand and apply ecological principles to farm ecosystems, is the future of modern agriculture.
  36. What are we eating?
    Introduction to Other Voices, January 21, 2018

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
  37. World Vision Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization


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