Events / CAPI Dialogues

With the first year of the 2020-2022 CAPI Doctoral Fellowship Program coming to a close, our doctoral fellows have produced four impressive individual reports on soil health and Canadian agriculture: from cover cropping on the Prairies, to flooding in agricultural lands in Quebec, to soil conversation practices for long-term productivity and climate change mitigation, to […]

How do we build a resilient, sustainable, and prosperous agri-food system for Canada? This question that was already before us will become more urgent and relevant in the post-COVID19 world. Join the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) as we harvest and synthesize research findings and draw from the learnings of this crisis to identify critical […]

Join CAPI for a post-Budget panel discussion on the impacts it will have on Canada’s agri-food system! The last 12 months have been challenging for Canada. The pandemic, climate change, and trade disruptions all have had significant impacts on the food system. However, despite the considerable pressures, the system has proven to be incredibly resilient. […]

The Trade and Climate Change conference is a joint effort of the U.S.-based Farm Foundation and the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute to explore topics in the context of a global trading environment where climate change policies have become increasingly ambitious and diverse among international players. The conference will explore topics such as climate change policies […]

Join the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) at our upcoming Webinar Series More and Better with Less: Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture on March 2nd and 5th, 2021! CAPI is hosting a Webinar Series on the importance of sustainable intensification for global food security and for addressing climate change. In order to feed the world’s growing […]

Join the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) for a fulsome dialogue on some of the critical factors affecting investment in value-added and a sustainable agri-food system in Canada. We hope to identify strategies that will help the sector improve its future growth prospects while meeting sustainability and ESG criteria. Simultaneous interpretation will be available. Presented […]

On July 31, 2019, the joint Farm Foundation-Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute Chicago Dialogue on Trade and Sustainability covered the challenges in developing a greater understanding of how trade and sustainability are interconnected. The event brought together experts with diverse backgrounds from the educational, corporate, policy and grower segments of the food and agricultural sectors in […]

Way Forward for Sustained, Long-term Growth:  Optimizing Land Use At the end of 3 major dialogues in 2017 and 2018 held by CAPI to examine “Barton Forward: Optimizing Growth in the AgriFood Sector”, it became clear that growth for growth’s sake will not be enough but rather will require a perspective shaped or characterized by […]

Way Forward for Sustained, Long-term Growth:  Optimizing Land Use At the end of 3 major dialogues in 2017 and 2018 held by CAPI to examine “Barton Forward: Optimizing Growth in the AgriFood Sector”, it became clear that growth for growth’s sake will not be enough but rather will require a perspective shaped or characterized by […]