Yesterday the 2018 Budget for Canada was published. As one would expect, for the largest part it didn’t focus much on agriculture – in the formal budget plan itself, the term arises only 21 times, and most of those occurrences are in reference to how agriculture is a part of wider development of either scientific… Read More Gendered Agricultural Presences in #YourBudget2018
Afternoon, It’s been a while – I’ve meant to write about the forms of gendered representation in CDN Agriculture, but have been sufficiently distracted that I’ve been behind on assembling the data set. I am only one individual. Today I’d like to talk about some impressions on the FCCIgnite event which I attended half of… Read More Travel Skvetch – FCCIgnite, Truro NS, Feb. 9th
“Another area to explore this in would be via how gendered representation occurs in agricultural media…” One of the potential alternate ways to try to get at a profile of what the agricultural demographics of the Atlantic provinces would look like would be via a look at the representation in Agricultural sector media. While it… Read More Atlantic Farm Focus 2016 Gendered Representation
In reading through the Atlantic Farm Focus, one of the more interesting articles I found in 2016 was the article “The New Face of Farming in Atlantic Canada” by Chris Muise. While unfortunately the article is not published online (it was at one point, but the Farm Focus doesn’t have it as a part of their… Read More Gendered Skvetchs of the 2016 Atlantic Farm Focus – “New Farmer” Demographic Survey Discrepencies
The title is with apologies to Joseph Howe. Observations bearing witness to the events and happenings of the province. Much less specified in form than the other sections.
Nova Scotia’s press, occasionally, writes about rural Nova Scotia. This is not to begrudge them, considering the larger focus on cityscapes and city culture (Halifax and Cape Breton) as appropiate given their much larger populations, but does mean that the impressions which are written by much of the provincial focused entities can be more easily… Read More Press Skvetchs – Explained
In the ideal world, it would be simple to find out the number and nature of new entrants to agriculture in the province. The province collects farm business information as a part of the Farm Registration Act, including information about the names, addresses, and farm registration number of these entities as a part of establishing… Read More Emergence – Explained
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