Agriculture committee  Thank you for this question. It's important, because there is global governance around food security. It is very recent. Maybe you remember in 2008 there was a big food prices crisis around the world and there was lots of rioting. It happened in the developing countries, and sud

Agriculture committee  Again, if I understand correctly—I'm very sorry that maybe my distance doesn't allow me to understand—you're talking about what we produce and what we export or use locally. Am I right that you are asking this? Canada is a major food exporter. Canada also has no problems concerni

Agriculture committee  Of course, there's a strong correlation between the two. Sustainability, as we all know, is about using the resources, but what we need in agriculture is water, soil, and seeds. These are very valuable resources, and these resources are actually also in danger because of agricult

Agriculture committee  Agroecology is also in general connected with food waste. Agroecology means not producing more than we consume. We are talking about more responsible production activity. In developed countries, food waste is at the consumer level. For instance, if you go to developing countries

Agriculture committee  As far as I understand your question, this is about how much we pay for our food. Am I right about that?

Agriculture committee  Let me explain this. First of all, food production basically makes more and more available food, but this food is not accessible. According to FAO—there is a kind of calculation because of climate change—we need 50% more food, but this doesn't mean that we are really dealing with

Agriculture committee  Coming back to my most recent report in March of 2017 to the UN Human Rights Council, I introduced several recommendations designed to reduce pesticide use worldwide and develop a framework for banning and phasing out highly hazardous pesticides and for promoting of agroecology.

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. Distinguished members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, ladies and gentlemen, to begin with I would like to congratulate the Canadian government for developing the first-ever national Canada food policy discussion. Suc