Farming for the Future

Canadian Organic Alliance calls for a dedicated Organic Food and Farming Strategy to help deliver the framework’s objectives.

Bill C-30 seeks to address economic uncertainty and food security by making the most substantive changes to pesticide regulation in a generation, yet this Bill was not studied by Parliament’s agriculture, health, or environment committees. 

There are lots of great organic/regenerative/ecological events happening this July, and we are excited to share them here. We hope you have fun at an ag event online or near you this month!

During National Indigenous History Month, we are reflecting on the rich agrarian histories and traditions of Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island, the ways in which colonialism caused deep harm to Indigenous food sovereignty and food systems, and the ways in which Indigenous peoples are cultivating their relationships with seed-saving and farming today.

Organic sector organizations have submitted a high-level statement of priorities for the Next Policy Framework (NPF), the guiding Federal-Provincial-Territorial framework for agricultural programs and funding from 2028-2033. Read our submission, and use it as guidance when participating in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) Consultation on the 2026 Next Policy Framework.

Canadian Organic Growers is calling on the Government of Canada to reverse the termination of the Organic and Regenerative Research Program at the Swift Current Research and Development Centre and protect the continuity of Canada’s only dedicated long-term federal organic agriculture research program.