[NEWS] Five notes about the future of agriculture: the Island, Eurasia, Toronto, Netherlands

[rfmcdonald]

• Malcolm Campbell reports for CBC on how the Island's organic agriculture sector is dealing with ineffective provincial regulation.


• At the Toronto Star, Ainslie Cruickshank describes new measures to reserve GTA farmland in the Greenbelt for agricultural uses only.


• Leonid Bershidsky reports for Bloomberg View on how climate change is making Russia--and Ukraine, and Kazakhstan--a major agricultural force.


• At the Toronto Star, Alex McKeen reports on a North York warehouse that hosts a highly productive vertical farm.


• Frank Viviano's National Geographic article looking at the enormously productivity of high-tech agriculture in the Netherlands shows the future.