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Scaling climate-resilient farming solutions for global impact

  • If we are serious about tackling the climate crisis and ending global hunger, we must invest in solutions that work. Canadian Foodgrains Bank’s CA+
Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN | November 5, 2025
Secretary of State for International Development Randeep Sarai's government should continue to invest in Partnering for Climate, a federal program to support climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa, as a way to support climate adaptation and food security efforts, writes Carol Thiessen. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Scaling climate-resilient farming solutions for global impact

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN | November 5, 2025
  • If we are serious about tackling the climate crisis and ending global hunger, we must invest in solutions that work. Canadian Foodgrains Bank’s CA+

Scaling climate-resilient farming solutions for global impact

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN | November 5, 2025
  • If we are serious about tackling the climate crisis and ending global hunger, we must invest in solutions that work. Canadian Foodgrains Bank’s CA+
Secretary of State for International Development Randeep Sarai's government should continue to invest in Partnering for Climate, a federal program to support climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa, as a way to support climate adaptation and food security efforts, writes Carol Thiessen. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Climate finance should target resilient food systems

  • In the coming months, the government will release a new international climate finance package. We are asking for it to support small-scale food producers
Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN | November 20, 2024
Flooding has carved deep gullies at the bottom of these slopes in southern Ethiopia. A community effort to rehabilitate degraded watersheds is ongoing in the region as part of Canadian Foodgrains Bank’s Nature+ program. Photograph courtesy of Canadian Foodgrains Bank

Climate finance should target resilient food systems

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN | November 20, 2024
  • In the coming months, the government will release a new international climate finance package. We are asking for it to support small-scale food producers

Climate finance should target resilient food systems

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN | November 20, 2024
  • In the coming months, the government will release a new international climate finance package. We are asking for it to support small-scale food producers
Flooding has carved deep gullies at the bottom of these slopes in southern Ethiopia. A community effort to rehabilitate degraded watersheds is ongoing in the region as part of Canadian Foodgrains Bank’s Nature+ program. Photograph courtesy of Canadian Foodgrains Bank

Four decades later, global hunger still trending

  • Oct. 16 marked 43 years since the establishment of World Food Day. Yet in 2022, the world is hungrier than ever, with hundreds of
Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN, NYAMBURA GITHAIGA | October 17, 2022
Canada needs to bolster local food producers, particularly women, to grow a variety of nutritious foods that would contribute to healthy diets, write Nyambura Githaiga and Carol Thiessen. Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Four decades later, global hunger still trending

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN, NYAMBURA GITHAIGA | October 17, 2022
  • Oct. 16 marked 43 years since the establishment of World Food Day. Yet in 2022, the world is hungrier than ever, with hundreds of

Four decades later, global hunger still trending

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN, NYAMBURA GITHAIGA | October 17, 2022
  • Oct. 16 marked 43 years since the establishment of World Food Day. Yet in 2022, the world is hungrier than ever, with hundreds of
Canada needs to bolster local food producers, particularly women, to grow a variety of nutritious foods that would contribute to healthy diets, write Nyambura Githaiga and Carol Thiessen. Photograph courtesy of Pexels

COP26 big moment for Canada to act on empowering food producers in face of climate crisis

  • At a time when the world is facing two urgent crises—pandemic and planetary—the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference is a prime opportunity for Canada to show its seriousness in
Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN, MUENI MUTINDA | October 20, 2021
The ongoing COVID pandemic has been a shock that has swept around the world, crippling health systems, driving up hunger, and shutting down economic systems. Climate change, similarly, is a global problem, harming biodiversity, gender equality, health, nutrition, food security, and economic growth. Unsplash photograph by Paddy O’Sullivan

COP26 big moment for Canada to act on empowering food producers in face of climate crisis

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN, MUENI MUTINDA | October 20, 2021
  • At a time when the world is facing two urgent crises—pandemic and planetary—the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference is a prime opportunity for Canada to show its seriousness in

COP26 big moment for Canada to act on empowering food producers in face of climate crisis

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN, MUENI MUTINDA | October 20, 2021
  • At a time when the world is facing two urgent crises—pandemic and planetary—the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference is a prime opportunity for Canada to show its seriousness in
The ongoing COVID pandemic has been a shock that has swept around the world, crippling health systems, driving up hunger, and shutting down economic systems. Climate change, similarly, is a global problem, harming biodiversity, gender equality, health, nutrition, food security, and economic growth. Unsplash photograph by Paddy O’Sullivan

Canadian funding doesn’t measure up to lofty foreign-aid goals

  • When Emchjargal Dambii surveys the small slipper factory she’s managing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia she can hardly believe her eyes. When she signed up for
Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN | October 10, 2018
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, pictured, controls Canada’s foreign-aid budget. Her government must commit to making meaningful increases to Canada’s aid budget if it is to attain the goals it’s set, writes Carol Thiessen of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canadian funding doesn’t measure up to lofty foreign-aid goals

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN | October 10, 2018
  • When Emchjargal Dambii surveys the small slipper factory she’s managing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia she can hardly believe her eyes. When she signed up for

Canadian funding doesn’t measure up to lofty foreign-aid goals

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN | October 10, 2018
  • When Emchjargal Dambii surveys the small slipper factory she’s managing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia she can hardly believe her eyes. When she signed up for
International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, pictured, controls Canada’s foreign-aid budget. Her government must commit to making meaningful increases to Canada’s aid budget if it is to attain the goals it’s set, writes Carol Thiessen of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canada should boost aid for agriculture

  • Carla Duran credits her successful career as a farmer, and her family’s food security, to a Bolivian co-operative supported by the Canadian government. As
Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN, VIRGINIE LEVASSEUR | November 16, 2016
Two women grind rice outside a water pump station in Timbuktu, Mali in 2013. Marco Dormino photograph courtesy of the UN

Canada should boost aid for agriculture

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN, VIRGINIE LEVASSEUR | November 16, 2016
  • Carla Duran credits her successful career as a farmer, and her family’s food security, to a Bolivian co-operative supported by the Canadian government. As

Canada should boost aid for agriculture

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN, VIRGINIE LEVASSEUR | November 16, 2016
  • Carla Duran credits her successful career as a farmer, and her family’s food security, to a Bolivian co-operative supported by the Canadian government. As
Two women grind rice outside a water pump station in Timbuktu, Mali in 2013. Marco Dormino photograph courtesy of the UN

Extend women’s empowerment to the farm

  • WINNIPEG—Zione Mbewi is a great farmer. In recent years she increased yields on her small plot of maize in northern Malawi, and helped provide
Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN | April 20, 2016
On average, rural women in developing countries work about 16 hours a day, significantly more than men, says Carol Thiessen. UNMISS photograph by JC McIlwaine

Extend women’s empowerment to the farm

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN | April 20, 2016
  • WINNIPEG—Zione Mbewi is a great farmer. In recent years she increased yields on her small plot of maize in northern Malawi, and helped provide

Extend women’s empowerment to the farm

Opinion | BY CAROL THIESSEN | April 20, 2016
  • WINNIPEG—Zione Mbewi is a great farmer. In recent years she increased yields on her small plot of maize in northern Malawi, and helped provide
On average, rural women in developing countries work about 16 hours a day, significantly more than men, says Carol Thiessen. UNMISS photograph by JC McIlwaine
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