Food insecurity: Not just a poor country’s problem

In the Yukon, where food is especially expensive, locals are working to boost traditional food culture and local fare.
Haskap berries have been bred at the University of Saskatchewan to withstand cold temperatures and short growing seasons.
We are accustomed to thinking of food security as a poor country’s problem, something for national governments and the United Nations to solve. But a week-long trip to Whitehorse with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation was a stark reminder of the food-security challenges faced here in Canada....

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