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Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference about the National Food Security Strategy at the Ontario Food Terminal in Toronto on June 11, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Arlyn McAdorey

Canada’s new strategy won’t solve food insecurity or the health issues it creates

While the National Food Security Strategy does include important food systems initiatives, it fails to address the root causes of food insecurity or its health consequences.
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Partnerships between government, business and civil society are often tense: 3 tips on how to manage them

Partnerships need to grapple with the tension between what to preserve and what to change rather than be paralysed by it.
The Toben Gaa self-help group in Kenya discussing their agroforestry project, which helps smallholder farmers adapt to climate change. Joseph Gachoka/World Agroforestry/Flickr. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

A Super El Niño is coming: 5 hard‑won lessons the world can learn from Africa

A powerful Super El Niño is looming. Africa has learned hard lessons from past climate disasters that could help the world prepare.
Unimpactful policymaking in the farming and forestry sectors is in need of an overhaul to tackle its significant role in the global climate crisis. Terra è vita.

Agroecology: rethinking global policy efficiency and funding priorities to overcome the blind spot in climate action

Policy frameworks shaping farming in the EU and beyond are suffering from funding misalignment and fragmented priorities, resulting in ineffective global climate efforts.
Food insecurity worsened for the third year in a row in 2024, setting another national record, with more than 25 per cent of the population living in households with inadequate access to food due to financial constraints. (Unsplash)

Why we need to talk about the root causes of food insecurity

Dominant nutrition wellness narratives wrongly focus on individual behaviour and personal responsibility, which obscures the structural causes of hunger and delays policy changes.
Sharp spikes in calls for food assistance are rare outside of natural disasters. AP Photo/Eric Gay

National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters

As the government shutdown wore on in October, calls began surging, signaling that Americans are very concerned about paying their bills and feeding their families.

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