The concept of food sovereignty.

In order to promote a change of agricultural policy, we briefly review the cases of countries that have abolished or are in the process of abolishing quota systems: the buyback and abandonment of milk quotas in Australia, of tobacco and peanut quotas in the United States, the elimination of milk quotas in Switzerland and the beginnings of a process of abandonment of milk quotas in Europe. Canada could follow these examples by abandoning mandatory membership in marketing boards and by imposing a temporary tax to buy back farming quotas.

Foreign aid vs. Free trade.

Soaring food prices and the environment.

The “supply management” model in agriculture.

One of the pillars of the present agricultural policy is the farm income stabilization insurance program.

The lack of young manpower in agriculture.

Publication of a look at the negative consequences of agricultural policies in Quebec and Canada.

During their annual meeting at the beginning of this month, representatives of the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) decided to suspend the tourist season for snowmobilers in order to protest the government’s plan to reduce the costs of La Financière agricole. The dispute pertains to the exclusion of the costs of the least competitive farms when calculating the compensation to be paid out to farmers.

The buy local concept as expressed in “food miles.”