Agriculture committee  To summarize, I would say that food sovereignty, as I mentioned, is about people's ability to choose what food they want to eat and how that food is produced. As they decide, they should be able to afford food that is culturally appropriate and safe for them to eat. The issue is

Agriculture committee  One of the main things that limits direct marketers' and small-scale farmers' ability to grow is food safety regulations that are designed for industrial scale production and processing. What we would like to see, ideally, is some flexibility in that system and a recognition that

Agriculture committee  A very important part of that is education at the primary and secondary levels as core curriculum in food and agriculture in our schools in Canada. Personally, I got into farming when I was in my early twenties, but it was never presented to me as a career option when I was going

Agriculture committee  Yes, that's true. I am an organic farmer and I practise direct marketing, so I sell directly into farmers' markets in Kingston. That is a little different, because there are more women in that sector of agriculture than in other sectors, but there is still quite a bit of stigma.

Agriculture committee  I am pretty much the average new farmer of today. Our research is showing that about 60% of young people entering agriculture today are young women. What made me enter agriculture was learning about agriculture from an environmental perspective and the environmental externalities

Agriculture committee  I'm a new farmer. I'm here today representing thousands of farmers from across Canada. NFU members produce a wide variety of foods, and we sell our products in every way, from farmers' markets to supply-managed markets to export markets. The one common goal of all of these divers