Rooted in Resistence: Food sovereignty, Free Trade and Farm Labour
January, 2014 Written by Heather Elliott heather@fermeauxchampsquichantent.com This last November I had the opportunity of attending the annual convention of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) in Ottawa. Living and farming in Quebec, I hadn’t been very exposed to the NFU, and was thoroughly encouraged to find the membership well organized and taking a radical approach to agricultural issues, that is to say addressing farmers’ concerns at the roots of the problem. In these days of globalized, commodity-based agriculture, farming is…