Institutions and Influence Groups in Canadian Farm and Food Policy
Author: James D. Forbes
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780919696648
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Publisher: Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780919696648
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rod MacRae
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2012-07-18
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0774822716
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Civil society organizations are among the most vociferous critics of the modern food system. Yet even after decades of campaigns, governments have failed to address health and sustainability issues in a systematic way. New approaches are in order, and this volume showcases the research of experts from various disciplines who argue that solutions lie not just in lobbying elected officials but rather in initiatives at the subparliamentary level. Case studies on a range of topics, from breastfeeding and sustainable pest management promotion to programs such as Canada’s Action Plan on Food Security, tell a story of misguided campaigns and missed opportunities. Real change, this inspiring volume suggests, is possible. It will come when advocacy groups develop innovative strategies of influencing decision makers more resistant to public pressure: business lobbies well connected to government agencies, middle managers, and ministries unused to collaborating across departmental mandates.
Author: Kevin G. Wipf
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This dissertation begins by providing an overview of Canadian agriculture policy during the first half of the twentieth century. It examines the origins of railway transportation subsidies, farm income subsidies, and the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), policy instruments that became structural features of the agricultural industry on the prairies. It then analyzes the structural pressures that led governments to rethink these features beginning in the 1970s, and the demographic and political context in which farmer support for collective institutions was eroded and neoliberal farm groups came to influence public policy over the decades that followed. Subsequent chapters examine the way that the federal government attempted to reform farm income subsidies in the 1990s and 2000s, in order to adhere to newly established international trade rules, and the relative success of those efforts. Two chapters are then devoted to the political struggle between the neoliberal and collectivist coalitions (farm groups, opposition parties, and governments) over the future of the CWB's single desk. The second of these chapters focuses on the final political struggle that occurred once the Harper Conservatives won a majority government in 2011, and how the single desk was finally brought to an end. Two concluding chapters then examine the new politics that has emerged around issues pertaining to food security, food safety, and environmental sustainability in Canada, how these issues affect, but often fail to intersect with, the continuing debates about the future of Canadian farming. The dissertation ends by exploring ways that prairie farmers might make connections to these issues, and with the groups working on them, in order to ensure their involvement in the future of agri-food policy in Canada.
Author: Tomoko Hamada
Publisher: EOLSS Publications
Published: 2009-06-16
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 1848260873
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Social and Cultural Development of Human Resources is a component of Encyclopedia of Human Resources Policy, Development and Management in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Social and Cultural Development of Human Resources provides the essential aspects and a myriad of issues of great relevance to our world such as: Social and Cultural Development of Human Resources; Social Development Trends; Urban-Rural Dimensions of Social Development; Religious Belief and Resource Development; Use of Resources and Space; Consumption in Affluent Societies - Developing Societies; Consumption and the Environment; Globalization and the Consumer Society; Social and Cultural Development Indicators. This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0889368821
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For Hunger Proof Cities: Sustainable urban food systems
Author: Dale E. Richmond
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780920715192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: M. Paul Brown
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780920715390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Darren Halpin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1351148303
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This engaging volume investigates the fate of national industry associations amidst global change through analysis of interest group organizations representing farmers and agricultural producers. It asks how these groups have fared during a period of global change and examines the challenges inherent in their operation in the 21st century. Case studies from North America, Europe and Australasia provide illuminating research into farm interest groups at the national level and organizational features of individual groups. It will be of value to scholars and researchers in the fields of global governance, political science and rural studies.
Author: Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780920715116
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