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Food policies should support small-scale producers

  • Ten years ago, a spike in food prices ignited a global food crisis that compromised the ability of the world’s poorest people to access
Opinion | BY JENNIFER CLAPP | February 21, 2018
A nurse measures the arm of a severely malnourished child at a clinic in the Abu Shouk Camp for Internally Displaced Persons in North Darfur in 2013. UN photograph by Albert González Farran

Food policies should support small-scale producers

Opinion | BY JENNIFER CLAPP | February 21, 2018
  • Ten years ago, a spike in food prices ignited a global food crisis that compromised the ability of the world’s poorest people to access

Food policies should support small-scale producers

Opinion | BY JENNIFER CLAPP | February 21, 2018
  • Ten years ago, a spike in food prices ignited a global food crisis that compromised the ability of the world’s poorest people to access
A nurse measures the arm of a severely malnourished child at a clinic in the Abu Shouk Camp for Internally Displaced Persons in North Darfur in 2013. UN photograph by Albert González Farran

Agriculture complicates Trump’s trade bluster

  • Questions are swirling around the direction of United States trade policy now that Donald Trump is in the White House. He came out swinging
Opinion | BY JENNIFER CLAPP | March 29, 2017
Canada was the top destination for U.S. agricultural exports in 2015. The chart shows the exports in U.S. dollars. Chart courtesy of the USDA

Agriculture complicates Trump’s trade bluster

Opinion | BY JENNIFER CLAPP | March 29, 2017
  • Questions are swirling around the direction of United States trade policy now that Donald Trump is in the White House. He came out swinging

Agriculture complicates Trump’s trade bluster

Opinion | BY JENNIFER CLAPP | March 29, 2017
  • Questions are swirling around the direction of United States trade policy now that Donald Trump is in the White House. He came out swinging
Canada was the top destination for U.S. agricultural exports in 2015. The chart shows the exports in U.S. dollars. Chart courtesy of the USDA

Agribusiness mega-mergers won’t help to feed the world

  • Regulators around the world, including Canada’s Competition Bureau, are currently reviewing a trio of agribusiness mega-mergers that were announced over the last 13 months.
Opinion | BY JENNIFER CLAPP | January 18, 2017
Farmers and opponents of genetic modification have called on Canada's Competition Bureau to review a proposed merger between Monsanto and Bayer that would give the resulting company a near monopoly over Canada's canola seed market. Photograph by Giam, courtesy of Flickr

Agribusiness mega-mergers won’t help to feed the world

Opinion | BY JENNIFER CLAPP | January 18, 2017
  • Regulators around the world, including Canada’s Competition Bureau, are currently reviewing a trio of agribusiness mega-mergers that were announced over the last 13 months.

Agribusiness mega-mergers won’t help to feed the world

Opinion | BY JENNIFER CLAPP | January 18, 2017
  • Regulators around the world, including Canada’s Competition Bureau, are currently reviewing a trio of agribusiness mega-mergers that were announced over the last 13 months.
Farmers and opponents of genetic modification have called on Canada's Competition Bureau to review a proposed merger between Monsanto and Bayer that would give the resulting company a near monopoly over Canada's canola seed market. Photograph by Giam, courtesy of Flickr

Too much at stake for Canada to ignore agribusiness mega-mergers

  • A series of mega-mergers among global seed and agricultural chemical companies is threatening to consolidate the sector and curtail competition. Bayer’s $62 billion offer
Opinion | BY JENNIFER CLAPP | July 13, 2016
If the planned mergers go through, just three firms would control more than 65 per cent of the global agro-chemical market, and more than 60 per cent of the global seed market, writes Jennifer Clapp. Photograph courtesy of Ryan Cheney

Too much at stake for Canada to ignore agribusiness mega-mergers

Opinion | BY JENNIFER CLAPP | July 13, 2016
  • A series of mega-mergers among global seed and agricultural chemical companies is threatening to consolidate the sector and curtail competition. Bayer’s $62 billion offer

Too much at stake for Canada to ignore agribusiness mega-mergers

Opinion | BY JENNIFER CLAPP | July 13, 2016
  • A series of mega-mergers among global seed and agricultural chemical companies is threatening to consolidate the sector and curtail competition. Bayer’s $62 billion offer
If the planned mergers go through, just three firms would control more than 65 per cent of the global agro-chemical market, and more than 60 per cent of the global seed market, writes Jennifer Clapp. Photograph courtesy of Ryan Cheney
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