Contents:
Message from the Editor: How familiar does this story sound?
Message from the President: Debt and Land Tenure
Message from the Women’s President:What’s In Our Name?
Message from the NFU Youth: Youth Retreat- Nanoose
Regional Reports
International Perspectives on UPOV ’91
—The case of African resistance
Chile beats back UPOV ’91
The Basque Region: A Learning Vacation
UN Discussion Attempts to Estimate the True Value of Family Farms
Conference Board of Canada’s ideas for changing Supply Management ill conceived and self-serving
The Paul Beingessner Award for Excellence in Writing:
This year’s theme is: The Importance of Seed to Small Farms
Pipelines: Lax enforcement by NEB
The Importance of Bees and Bee Health:
A precis of the NFU’s submission to the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (May 1, 2014)