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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Jennifer Clapp

Jennifer Clapp is Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo. Her recent books include Food (Polity Press, 2012) and Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid (Cornell University Press, 2012).

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Jennifer Clapp

Eating and Surviving

The case for more government support of sustainable food—and less meat in our diets May 2013
Climate change is poised to have a profound impact on the world’s agricultural systems in the coming decades. Already, scientists are documenting more robust weeds and drier soils that threaten crop yields. This scenario looms against a worrying backdrop that features ongoing food price volatility, more than 860 million people on the planet without enough to eat on a daily basis and world population growth that is expected to reach 9 billion by…