A farmer applies a natural fertilizer on his crop at his farm in in the southern India.
Canadian farmers and ranchers who attended COP27 left with a sense of what can happen when their sector has a stake in the global climate agenda. The two-week UN summit, which featured delegates and governments from nearly 200 countries, sought to mobilize greater climate action around the world in key sectors — agriculture being one of them.
Perhaps it was due to the ongoing hunger crisis or lessons learned from government-imposed agricultural policy in Netherlands and Sri Lanka, but this year’s program had food systems as a key focus and left space for producers and farm organizations to lead conversations.
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