On July 31, 2025 the Israeli army laid waste to Palestinian heritage seeds & key infrastructure. This malicious attack & deliberate targeting of a civilian agricultural facility represents a further escalation of the violence, crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza. www.nfu.ca/nfu-condemns...

The CFIA is proposing big changes to Canada’s Seed Regulations. 👀 These regulations have a huge impact on farmers & the food system – so changes are very important. We created a guide to help you understand and respond. ‼️ Don’t delay! Public consultation ends on October 3 ‼️ www.nfu.ca/SRM-guide

Singing Back the Buffalo: An NFU Film Screening for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation @nfucanada.bsky.social nfu-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A group of 5 NFU members are currently delegates at the 3rd Nyeleni Global Forum in Kandy, Sri Lanka. This forum is a convergence space for global social movements, who are, together, moving towards ambitious action on systemic transformation of our food system and society at large.

Agriculture & AgriFood 🇨🇦's Local Food Infrastructure Fund - Small Scale Projects is funding projects that improve food security. Receive up to $100k to bring your community project to life! The final intake is open until September 19, 2025. agriculture.canada.ca/en/programs/...

Le 10 sept est la Journée internationale d’action contre l’OMC et les accords de libre-échange. La logique du « libre-échange » profite aux entreprises mondialisées au détriment des fournisseurs alimentaires, des communautés et des écosystèmes. Lisez la déclaration ici: www.nfu.ca/fr/the-nfu-a...

September 10th is The International Day of Action against the WTO and Free Trade Agreements. The NFU recognizes that the logic of ‘free trade’ benefits globalized corporations at the expense of food providers, communities and ecosystems. Read the full statement here: www.nfu.ca/the-nfu-affi...

Une modification proposée à la réglementation sur les semences menace la souveraineté semencière et constitue une atteinte inacceptable à la pratique ancestrale des agriculteurs consistant à conserver leurs semences. 📣 Signez dès AJD la pétition parlementaire ! www.noscommunes.ca/petitions/fr...

Proposed seed regulatory change threatens seed sovereignty in Canada by removing Farmers’ Privilege from new fruit, vegetable, and ornamental varieties. This encroaches on farmers’ age-old practice of saving seed. 📣 Sign the Parliamentary e-petition today! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Once every ten or so years, La Via Campesina hosts a Nyéléni Forum. This year, it's in Sri Lanka, with deep questions about trade, solidarity, food, justice and land on the table. Follow along here viacampesina.org/en/nyeleni-g...

RÉSERVEZ LA DATE 🗓️ pour la 56ème convention annuelle : Alimentation. Souveraineté. Justice. Développer des solutions collectives. Où : Crowne Plaza, Moncton, N.-B. Quand : 19, 20 et 21 novembre. Réservez vos chambres d’hôtel avant le 20 octobre ! Inscrivez-vous ici ! www.nfu.ca/fr/2025conve...

SAVE THE DATE 🗓️ for the NFU’s 56th Annual Convention: Food. Sovereignty. Justice. Building Collective Solutions. Where/When: Crowne Plaza, Moncton, NB from November 19, 20, and 21. Book your hotel rooms by October 20th to receive our convention rate! www.nfu.ca/2025conventi...

Voluntary breakup of one of the biggest food mega mergers in the past decade - KraftHeinz - illustrates that the Curse of Bigness is a real thing! We need more small, local, dynamic firms in the food system to bring real competition and choice www.ft.com/content/326f...

The NFU is so grateful to Rural Vermont and the People's Agroecology School for organizing the 2025 Short Course in People's Agroecology, as well as to each and every participant from across the globe who contributed to the experience.

We call upon the federal government to withdraw Bill C-2. This bill endangers migrants and refugees, threatens farm workers’ rights, and expands warrantless surveillance of all Canadians, undermining food security, privacy, and human rights. www.nfu.ca/bill-c-2-wil...

The debate over famers' rights to save and reuse seed is blowing up again in Canada. As @nfucanada.bsky.social puts it, "The seed industry wants to be able to require people to buy new seed every year." They're clearly in for a fight. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social

China’s new anti-dumping tariff on canola – what does it mean? Read our explainer to find out more. This tariff is more about geo-politics than dumping, and Canada's response should protect farmers and focus on both food sovereignty and economic sovereignty. www.nfu.ca/policy/respo...

This week five delegates from the NFU were in Vermont for a course hosted by Rural Vermont and the People’s Agroecology School of Vermont - they gathered with international allies in the agroecology movement for a series of on-farm work brigades, political education events, and knowledge exchange.

"Extreme heat is uniquely dangerous for farmworkers, and their well-being is deeply tied to global food security." Farm workers absolutely need better protections as the impacts of climate change continue to worsen.

"That shift—toward local control over what communities eat—is happening across the North. Remote regions are looking for ways to feed themselves on their own terms..." Local food systems empower communities!! 🥬

From our American allies, @familyfarmco.bsky.social: The dismantling of dairy sector policies in the US has lead to a 95% loss of dairy farms since the 1970s. This loss goes to show just how valuable good agricultural policies, like Supply Management, can be! www.nfu.ca/american-fam...

📢 NEW OP-ED! 🛒 High grocery costs are the result of retail grocery companies’ increasing profit margins, not farm prices. Farmers deserve a fair share of food prices. The success of supply management provides clear evidence that this is possible. www.nfu.ca/dont-let-the...

Due to cuts by the USDA, Agroecology Commons will offer fewer services to fewer aspiring farmers from underserved communities. Civil Eats Intern @rileyramirez.bsky.social reports. ⬇️

“The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” the world’s leading hunger monitor said in its strongest warning yet on the rapidly growing starvation crisis.

"If we truly value the contribution that journalism makes to democracy, it shouldn’t be enough that a community merely has access to local news media, but that it has access to high-quality, well-resourced, and independent news media." www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

“This is less a reorganization and more a dismantling. This mass relocation will be costly. It will also result in the mass resignation of staff, which means a major loss of capacity at USDA." @benlilliston.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Our food system should nourish people, with dignity, care, and justice. That means everyone. Immigrant families, food workers, and small vendors are not threats; they are essential to our communities." Read the op-ed by Alba Velasquez, executive director of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council. ⬇️

"Rural agricultural expropriation takes on a special character; not only are these homes, these are livelihoods and long regional legacies. Expropriation involves uprooting entire family histories and lifelong, if not generational, careers." #cdnag #landgrab #farmland #onpoli

These collards are the whole package - sturdy, large, robust leaves, packed with nutrition just begging to be eaten! An excellent source of Vitamins K, A & C, they have good amounts of protein and calcium too! Talk about plant power 💪

🚨BREAKING🚨 ICJ ruling that a healthy environment is a human right could be a real turning point in setting out governments’ legal responsibility to tackle #climate crisis 👇

From potatoes in Britain to onions in India, weather extremes fuelled by #ClimateCrisis are driving short-term food price surges globally, research has found. “The meaning of food price inflation is political. It’s always political” says our @rajpatel.org nationalpost.com/life/food/ex...

📚 New research from UVic and UBC shows that extreme heat presents an urgent threat to the wellbeing of agricultural workers globally, and it amplifies occupational exposures such as pesticides and air pollution. 👩🏾‍🌾👨🏽‍🌾🧑🏼‍🌾 We need strong legal frameworks to protect these workers! doi.org/10.1007/s405...

"If we don't get any rain in the next week or two, it's just going to burn up to nothing." 🌾 Southwest Saskatchewan is in extreme drought. Farmers face 9 straight years of drying fields and dying crops. This is what climate crisis looks like. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"What we are witnessing is not just a tragic consequence of war, but the deliberate use of starvation as a tool of political and demographic control. This strategy, designed to dismantle Palestinian society, amounts to a form of structural genocide." viacampesina.org/en/2025/07/g...

Excited to participate in this upcoming webinar on corporate and geopolitical power in food systems co-hosted by the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSIPM) & @ipes-food.org - alongside @michaelfakhri.bsky.social & @ksjomo.bsky.social July 25, 2-25; 8am Rome Time. More info:

📢Building Back People Power. Help Make It Happen! The Global Nyéléni Forum will gather over 500 participants among small-scale food producers, civil society organizations, and activists from 80+ countries. Your support will help ensures full, diverse participation whydonate.com/fundraising/...

Le président de la jeunesse d'UNF-Nouveau-Brunswick, Alexis Légère, parle ici de l'étalement urbain et de son impact sur les terres agricoles. www.acadienouvelle.com/actualites/2...

The NFU has signed on to the following petition authored by the Arab and North Africa (ArNa) region of @viacampesinabe.bsky.social The NFU affirms the rights of Palestinian people to sovereignty, including food sovereignty in their homelands. viacampesina.org/en/2025/04/s...

"Two decades of the FAO seeds treaty and India’s own plant variety protection & farmers’ rights act have yielded little tangible benefit for farmers, despite thousands of varieties being registered," says researcher Shalini Bhutani www.downtoearth.org.in/food/plant-t... @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social

The industrial food system consumes: 🧪 40% of petrochemicals 🛢️ 15% of all fossil fuels. 💸 It's now Big Oil's key growth frontier. Yet somehow it stays off the climate radar, says our @grocerynerd.bsky.social 👉 Read #FuelToFork: ipes-food.org/report/fuel-... #ClimateAction #foodsystems #COP30

Really wonderful to see a American perspective on the importance of supply management! 🥛🐄 "Unlike the US system, in which price controls were lifted for dairy in the 1980s, Canadian dairy farmers have a semblance of certainty year after year." www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/18/f...

Delighted to share the latest @ipes-food.org report Fuel to Fork that unpacks the myriad ways fossil fuels are embedded in #foodsystems The report also lays out a clear blueprint to build fossil-free, resilient food systems. Link below!! ⤵️ ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...

1/ Under first-past-the-post, foreign policy in Canada is often shaped by the narrow interests of two dominant parties, while millions of voters are left out Proportional representation would bring more voices to the table and lead to better decisions for everyone. 🧵

This Thursday, June 26th @ 7pm ET! In celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day, NFU’s Indigenous Solidarity Working Group is hosting a virtual movie night featuring the film “Kanenon:we - Original Seeds”. Register here: nfu-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

NFU farmers from Ontario from @pfenningsfarm.bsky.social and Fertile Ground Farm discuss the difficulties of this year's growing season due to extreme climate variability. 🥦🍓 A reminder that farmers are on the front lines of the climate crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

On June 21st, NFU Youth President, Adama Bundu, joined other @viacampesinabe.bsky.social members to observe the exam and ceremony of the graduating class of El Josco Bravo School of Agroecology in Puerto Rico as part of the movement’s First International Brigade coordinated by Organización Boricuá.

🧑🏾‍🌾✊🏾🌱🌍 On 25 June 2025 @defendingundrop.bsky.social is organizing a webinar dedicated to #UNDROP #PeasantsRights holders and their struggles for sustainable and just food systems! ➡️ viacampesina.org/en/2025/06/u... @eurovia.org @fian-international.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social @ipes-food.org

The weather forever shapes our days, and with today's forecast calling for 36 degrees with a humidex well into the 40s, safety has to come first. We can't bring the fields indoors, but we can take steps to ensure the safety and well-being of the teams who work outside. 1/2

“Truth and reconciliation, for me, is gardening and farming, because everybody loves to eat,” Crosby said. “Now it’s on to the next generation."

Bill C-5 is a fast track to environmental disaster. It gives federal cabinet sweeping powers to conditionally approve projects upfront and bypass environmental & safety laws.   We’ve broken it down in our blog 🔗