Ag Review Tribunal member re-appointed
Geneviève Parent has been reappointed to the Canada Agricultural Review Tribunal for a three-year term, starting Aug. 31.
It will be her third consecutive term.
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Parent is a professor in Université Laval’s Faculty of Law. Her research has focused on national and international legal instruments for ensuring food diversity, the impact of international law on Canadian and Quebec agri-food legislation and on the search for greater consistency between international economic law and other domains of law to promote sustainable global food security.
She has been a member of the tribunal since August 2017 and has also been an associate member of the French Academy of Agriculture since 2019.
The tribunal makes decisions about administrative monetary penalties and warnings imposed for alleged violations of federal agriculture and agri-food legislation and regulations.
Sask Barley joins crop breeder
The Saskatchewan Barley Development Commission has joined Western Crop Innovations as a voting member, committing $50,000 in core funding as a transitional grant for the current fiscal year.
Western Crop Innovations was formerly known as the Field Crop Development Centre, founded in 1973 by the Alberta government and operating under the Olds College of Agriculture & Technology.
It became a not-for-profit organization this year with a goal of developing feed and forage barley, malting barley and triticale varieties specifically tailored for the Western Prairies.
Feds fund food security projects
The federal government has launched the new School Food Infrastructure Fund (SFIF) and the next phase of the Local Food Infrastructure Fund.
The $20.2 million SFIF program will help not-for-profit organizations invest in infrastructure and equipment to support school food programming across Canada. It is delivered as a complement to the National School Food Program and the guidance provided under the National School Food Policy.
Eligible organizations can apply for funding until Oct. 4.
The renewed LFIF is intended to help improve community food security and will be delivered through two components:
Small scale projects will provide funding between $25,000 and $100,000 to support infrastructure projects, such as irrigation systems for community gardens or solar panels for greenhouses. Applications for the first intake will be open from Oct. 1-31. A second intake will be announced in 2025.
Large scale projects will provide funding between $150,000 and $500,000 to support community food security projects with multiple infrastructure and equipment needs. For example, partners could come together to upgrade a soup kitchen and increase the number of meals served, using food from a local community garden or a local farmer. Applications will be open from Jan. 13 to Feb. 28, 2025.
