Senators should dig in to a soil-health study

Soil conservation is a pressing matter for the agriculture and agri-food sectors, and in turn for all Canadians, as we depend on farmers for our food.

If we allow continued degradation of soil, food security will undoubtedly become a more widely spread problem, writes Senator Rob Black. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY CSG SENATOR ROB BLACK

December 11, 2019

In 1984, the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry published a report, entitled “Soil at Risk: Canada’s Eroding Future.” The study, under the chairmanship of Senator Herbert Sparrow, who later went on to form the Soil Conservation Council of Canada in 1987, provided...

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