Young cows are seen in the Armstrong Manor Farm heifer barn on November 17, 2010. (JENNIFER ROBERTS/THE GLOBE AND M)
Canada: Our Time to Lead
Global Food: Best of the series
Highlights of the week-long project, including most viewed articles, video and features, top-rated comments and poll results
From the series
Part 1: The quest to put some bite into foreign food inspections
As Canadian Food Inspection Agency moves to update its practices, critics worry Canada's ability to protect citizens from domestic and imported risks is falling behind
Part 2: What's on your plate? Canada lags in tracing food for safety and profit
Want to know more about your food? The technology is there, now all it needs is a market: 'People will not pay for traceability in itself, you have to tell a story with it'
Part 3: The growing problem: Canada slips from agricultural superpower status
Canada is falling behind and farmers blame lack of vision, rather than lack of subsidies, for the decline
Part 4: Do corporate buyouts signal the end of the family farm?
The cheap and productive land of Saskatchewan is on the wishlist of global investment funds buying up millions of acres of farmland around the world
Part 5: Canada's transgenic Enviropig is stuck in a genetic modification poke
The world's most controversial swine reduce farmers' costs and are better for the planet. But so far, they're also illegal to eat
Part 6: Way of the locavore: Four ways to escape global food
They grow their own vegetables. They raise backyard chickens. They bypass the supermarkets to buy groceries from farmers they know. Lessons from those dedicated to local food
Opinions, sidebars and web extras
Canadians don’t know the price of milk
Buying a litre of milk sounds simple enough, but figuring out how the price is set isn’t easy
The hunger for more ambition in Canadian agriculture
If Canada doesn't shrink from the global opportunities in food, agriculture can still be a source of innovation and commercial strength
Food becomes strategic as governments grow more activist in a bid to bolster food security
Price controls, export restrictions, protectionism – governments are working more actively to secure key national agricultural resources
Food cop to aisle five: The grocery store's new bag
While grocers are forcing suppliers to clean up their acts, some experts worry big retailers see food safety as a marketing tool
Boardroom farmers: Some of the world's biggest agricultural investors
Global investment funds have sunk as much as $20-billion (U.S.) into farmland, last year alone they bought 111 million acres of farmland, a tenfold increase from previous years
Survey: Who is responsible for keeping our food safe?
Nanos Research asked 1,017 Canadians if the food-inspection system was working, and where they thought improvements could be made
How green is your wine?
Before you pat yourself on the back for choosing that bottle of locally produced wine at the liquor store, you might want to ask yourself how it got there
Videos
Part 1: Do we care where our food comes from?
The Globe and Mail panel debates traceability in the global food market with reporter Paul Waldie, Ontario Agri-Food Technologies president Gord Surgeoner and Jack Wilkinson, former president of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers
Part 2: Should Walmart set our food standards?
How helpful are retailers in the struggle to ensure a safe food supply? Ron Bonnett, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and co-chair of its national food strategy, joins the Globe panel
Part 3: Are our farms too small to compete?
Dave Nichol, former president of Loblaws says that it has always been a challenge for local growers to meet the demand placed on them by consumers. The answer, chef Christine Cushing argues is to focus on building the Canadian brand name.
Part 4: Is the 100-mile diet a pipe dream?
Canada's climate makes eating locally a challenge, chef Christine Cushing says, but the supporting local growers is the right way to go
Series interactives
Global food, a week in review
We began the series asking Globe readers to 'Consider this...' and we close the it with the editorial team offering its view of the highlights
Where do subsidies go?
Over the past 20 years, direct payments to farmers by the federal and provincial governments have tripled. Are we spending the money on the right kind of farm?
Where does this food come from? The HarvestMark knows
The traceability movement aims to give consumers the ability to trace and catalogue, step-by-complicated step, the journey food takes from the moment it leaves the farm (or sea) until it arrives on a plate
Editor's Picks: Your Comments
- The moment you bring humans into the "production" equation, we begin tampering with the inputs to improve outputs for our benefit. —Peon in golden boy's court on Canada's transgenic Enviropig is stuck in a genetic modification poke
- I think consumers should be fully informed and given the choice of buying GMO or non-GMO foods. —Rob7 on Vegetables 2.0: Five real-world examples of crossbred produce
- The food we eat has been tried on humanity for centuries. We have found out through trial and error what is poison. —Ed Longueville on Frankenfood or futurefood?
Vote: What's the next discussion Canada needs to have?
We asked The Globe Catalysts to pick the next eight discussions Canada needs to have. Here are their Top 10 choices - which issue do you think is most pressing?
Most Popular
| 1. | Canada's transgenic Enviropig is stuck in a genetic modification poke |
| 2. | The high environmental cost of global shrimp |
| 3. | Food cop to aisle five: The grocery store's new bag |
