Canada should boost aid for agriculture

In recent years, it’s declined 25 per cent.
Two women grind rice outside a water pump station in Timbuktu, Mali in 2013.
Carla Duran credits her successful career as a farmer, and her family’s food security, to a Bolivian co-operative supported by the Canadian government. As a child, Carla’s parents grew maize and potatoes on their small farm in Bolivia. They could barely make ends meet. Carla’s situation chan...

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