Improving Nutrition through Agriculture : Viewing agriculture-nutrition linkages along the smallholder value chain

This report is a synthesis of existing global knowledge on improving nutrition through agriculture using a smallholder value chain approach. The smallholder value chain model used by the desk review concentrates on both producers and consumers and is centred around three pathways: improved nutrition resulting from increased production for own consumption, improved nutrition through increased income from selling agricultural products, and improved nutrition through increased income resulting from farmers’ involvement in local or regional procurement programs. The report identifies key conditions for agricultural interventions to significantly contribute to nutrition as well as important knowledge gaps pertaining to agriculture-nutrition linkages

The Intersection of Child Protection and Family Law Systems in Cases of Domestic Violence

Both the child protection and the family law systems are intended to promote the best interests of children, and both can profoundly affect the relationships between children and their parents or caregivers. Over the past two decades, both systems have also accorded more weight in the assessment of best interests to how exposure to domestic violence can harm or place children at risk. However, these systems have evolved differently, are governed by different statutes, and are administered in different ways. Child protection proceedings purport to have primarily a protective function and invariably involve a public agency, while family law proceedings, under the Divorce Act and similar provincial and territorial statutes, typically involve disputes between private litigants. In this article, I compare the impact of the two systems in cases involving allegations of domestic violence, highlighting the challenges within each, the differences between them in their identification and response to domestic violence, as well as the problematic ways in which the systems interact and generate contradictory pressures for survivors, most often mothers. While I reference research findings in other jurisdictions, my inquiry is focused on Saskatchewan, a jurisdiction with relatively high rates of children in state care and the highest rate of domestic violence of all provinces. I draw on multiple sources that include extensive in-person interviews with legal professionals, government employees and service providers. I argue that the tensions and contradictions experienced by those affected by domestic violence could be mitigated by the provision of adequate and appropriate preventative and legal supports in both systems along with information and procedural protocols, more uniform understandings of domestic violence and adequate training for all court and Ministry personnel in the dynamics of domestic violence, the impact of systemic inequalities and the specific issues arising at the intersection of both systems

Email from Michael Wiegers to Patricia Goedicke

This email includes Goedicke\u27s email to Copper Canyon publishing regarding last minute changes to her manuscript for As Earth Begins to End and Weigers\u27 reply and general response to the manuscript.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/goedicke/1019/thumbnail.jp

Assisted Conception and Equality of Familial Status in Parentage Law

This article provides an in-depth analysis of outcomes in parentage disputes involving assisted conception across Canada. Throughout this article, I draw on equality of status, familial security and equity in terms of gender and sexual orientation as norms or values that should underlie and guide the legal regulation of parenthood in the context of reproductive technologies. Throughout, I also compare and contrast the sources of and the implications for children and parents of resistance in law towards the abolition of illegitimacy and the regulation of assisted conception