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Jane Rabinowicz

Jane Rabinowicz is executive director of USC Canada and the founding director of The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security.

Farmers fighting climate change, at home and abroad

When Linda Grossart checks the new organic wheat varieties she’s breeding after each instance of “weird weather”, she hopes to find they fared better

Opinion | BY JANE RABINOWICZ | March 23, 2020

Between 2005 and 2015, the Insurance Bureau of Canada’s severe weather insurance payments more than tripled over the previous decade, from an average of $373-million to over $1.2-billion in annual costs. The U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research estimates that Canada could lose 13 per cent of its GDP by 2100 without significant global action. If we’re going to have any hope of avoiding this fate, we need to make agriculture more sustainable and more resilient, writes Jane Rabinowicz. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Farmers fighting climate change, at home and abroad

Opinion | BY JANE RABINOWICZ | March 23, 2020

When Linda Grossart checks the new organic wheat varieties she’s breeding after each instance of “weird weather”, she hopes to find they fared better

Farmers fighting climate change, at home and abroad

Opinion | BY JANE RABINOWICZ | March 23, 2020

When Linda Grossart checks the new organic wheat varieties she’s breeding after each instance of “weird weather”, she hopes to find they fared better

Between 2005 and 2015, the Insurance Bureau of Canada’s severe weather insurance payments more than tripled over the previous decade, from an average of $373-million to over $1.2-billion in annual costs. The U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research estimates that Canada could lose 13 per cent of its GDP by 2100 without significant global action. If we’re going to have any hope of avoiding this fate, we need to make agriculture more sustainable and more resilient, writes Jane Rabinowicz. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Organic is good for the planet but needs more support, say authors of UBC study

Investing in organics is worth our while, concludes a study released Friday, March 10. While the study has received significant media attention, the coverage

Opinion | BY JANE RABINOWICZ, KAREN ROSS | March 27, 2017

Organic is good for the planet but needs more support, say authors of UBC study

Opinion | BY JANE RABINOWICZ, KAREN ROSS | March 27, 2017

Investing in organics is worth our while, concludes a study released Friday, March 10. While the study has received significant media attention, the coverage

Organic is good for the planet but needs more support, say authors of UBC study

Opinion | BY JANE RABINOWICZ, KAREN ROSS | March 27, 2017

Investing in organics is worth our while, concludes a study released Friday, March 10. While the study has received significant media attention, the coverage