Reading Time: 4 minutes From lab-grown meat to grocery store staff bonuses to the food-service crisis to gardening and cooking at home to panic buying
Tag: Food insecurity
Job rebound sluggish in Canada’s agri-food sector
Reading Time: 4 minutes The biggest problem is in food processing. Across the country, companies are struggling to recruit. Incentives may be required
Canada’s rising food insecurity problem
Reading Time: 4 minutes Food inflation is on the way up, despite lower prices for other consumer goods. And COVID-19 has impacted incomes
Better get used to higher food prices
Reading Time: 4 minutes The food sector has never been recession-proof. But COVID-19 may show us that it’s immune to deflationary pressures
Food-chain cracks exposed by COVID-19
Reading Time: 4 minutes Don’t blame farmers for euthanizing animals and dumping milk. The entire food industry is to blame – and we get what we deserve
Dairy renaissance could follow COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes Providing comfort and good health, dairy products will be found in the middle of pandemic-driven consumer changes
Thank capitalism for your basic supplies in time of crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes COVID-19 has meant some shortages at grocery stores. But overall, the supply chains developed over decades fill our needs
Cracking down on COVID-19 profiteers
Reading Time: 4 minutes While artificially inflated retail food prices are possible in Canada at any time, it’s highly unusual – even now
No food shortage yet, but …
Reading Time: 3 minutes We’re entering a crucial period in the pandemic. So far, governments have kept trade borders open. Cooler heads must prevail
Coronavirus exposes China’s failure as a socio-economic player
Reading Time: 4 minutes With more economic clout comes more responsibility. And China is failing