Canada can pick up where UN climate talks left off, help small-scale farmers

COP22 missed low-hanging fruit in the agricultural sector.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna speaks at the COP22 UN climate change conference in Marrakech, Morocco, last November.Photograph courtesy of the Rwandan Ministry of Natural Resources

Opinion

BY FARIS AHMED, GENEVIèVE TALBOT

January 11, 2017

The Paris Agreement set the stage in 2015: agriculture and food matter to climate change. The Committee for World Food Security sent the same message to the world during its October meetings, that the climate is changing, so should our food. Agriculture was one of the important issues to be discusse...

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