🧵Canada’s #agricultureexports and #agrifoodexports have continued to increase, reaching over $82 billion in 2021 and surpassing a previous target to grow agri-food exports to at least $75 billion by 2025. ⬇️
Through the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, #AAFC is working with Provincial and Territorial partners to achieve $250 billion in sector revenues and $95 billion in sector export revenues by 2028. canada.ca/en/agriculture…
#AAFC unveils new funding for Agriculture in the Classroom's digital campaign. The program will use that money to focus on the #Agricommunication program, a three-year, up to $8-million federal initiative cochranenow.com/articles/aafc-…
Funding will help AITC-C communicate through its new I Am Agriculture digital campaign. This funding will also support the second year of The Great Canadian Farm Tour beginning in April 2023. #cdnagriculture farmersforum.com/agriculture-in…
#bcagriculture B.C. farmers and food processors will receive increased food security support over the next five years through a new agreement between the governments of Canada and B.C. The Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership #SustainableCAP ⬇️
#SustainableCAP, more than $140 million will be invested in strategic initiatives, a 25% increase over the previous funding agreement. Demand-driven, business-risk management programs are estimated to provide $330 million ⬇️
in support to farmers over the lifespan of Sustainable CAP. The Sustainable CAP is the fifth Federal-Provincial-Territorial Multilateral Framework Agreement on agriculture and food policy. ⬇️
#foodsecurity #Indigenousreconciliation #climatechange #sustainablefoodproduction news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023A…
For more information about federal programs under the #SustainableCAP, visit: canada.ca/en/agriculture…
The Province of B.C. is investing more than $200 million in #FoodSecurity to ensure people have better access to an increased supply of affordable, local food. #bcfoodsecurity #TogetherBC, B.C.’s poverty reduction strategy: www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/go… ⬇️
The B.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Food will invest in new and enhanced programs to strengthen B.C.’s #foodsupplychain and expand #localfoodproduction. The ministry will also be investing in #Indigenouscommunities, particularly in remote and rural communities. ⬇️
Grants from the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction will strengthen #foodbanks food distribution and food access. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023A…
1/2 #FoodInsecurity in #Canada in 2021, 5.8 million lived in food-insecure households across the ten provinces. Unlike some other recent reports that have suggested dramatic changes in food insecurity through the pandemic, we find little change in the rate since 2019.
2/2 Canada has systematically monitored household #foodinsecurity since 2005. We began reporting the statistics from this monitoring with the goal of providing a tool to track trends and identify priorities for intervention proof.utoronto.ca/wp-content/upl…
#Alberta tops #foodinsecurity rates across Canadian provinces: report Aug 19, 2022. The Top 7 Richest Provinces in Canada
1. #Alberta – The GDP per capita $78,154
And, that's why the #lowincomerates and top #foodinsecurity rates in Alberta is shocking ⬇️
1. #Alberta – The GDP per capita $78,154
And, that's why the #lowincomerates and top #foodinsecurity rates in Alberta is shocking ⬇️
In Canada, a country of considerable wealth and abundant farmland, 5.8 million people struggle to access the food that they need. Canada does not have a food shortage problem, but we do have a #foodinsecurity problem and #poverty problem. feedopportunity.com/understanding-… 
1/2 The #povertyrate in 2018 was 11% based on #CanadaOfficialPovertyLine. This means that 3.98 million Canadians, or 1 in 9, were living in poverty in 2018. Building Understanding: The First Report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty canada.ca/en/employment-…
2/2 The Government of Canada’s #PovertyReductionStrategy has set an overall target of reducing poverty by 20% by 2020 and by 50% by 2030. The government is on track to meet its overall goal. canada.ca/content/dam/es…
While the CPC's pied piper 📢rails on attempting to blame the PM for high #groceryprices but provides no CPC policies to address #foodsecurity and reducing #foodinsecurity & #provertyreduction in Canada know the federal Liberal govt & Provinces are collaborating and have acted.
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