Who grows the food we eat? How important is it that family farms are
viable in Canada today and in the future? How do viable family farms
help determine the safety, diversity and sustainability of Canada's food
systems? Why is this important to those of us who do not farm?
Frontline Farmers introduces readers to the National Farmers Union
(NFU). For over fifty years, the NFU has been on the frontlines of our
food system. From fighting against transnational corporations that seek
to control our food system by imposing genetically modified organisms
into our food, to protecting seeds, maintaining orderly marketing,
saving the prison farms, keeping the land in the hands of family
farmers, farming ecologically and building food sovereignty, the NFU has
been front and centre of farm and food activism.
This book collects the voices of NFU members who tell the stories of the
key struggles of the progressive farm movement in Canada: fighting to
build viable rural communities, protecting the family farm and creating
socially just and ecologically sustainable food systems. Frontline
Farmers reveals that the stakes for controlling our food in Canada have
never been higher.
The book was made possible with support from the Canada Research Chair
Program.
For an updated, corrected list of the protagonists from Frontline
Farmers, please click here.
