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Year One of CAPI’s 2022-2024 Doctoral Fellowship is coming to a close, and that means our fellows have produced four impressive individual reports on the intersection of agricultural trade, the environment, and food security. Topics range from behavioural insights in promoting the adoption of sustainable ag practices, to vertical farming and its contribution to the […]

Join CAPI for a thought-provoking and timely webinar on sustainable agriculture and the need to develop innovative policies and systems in Canada. As pressures mount to improve ag stability and position Canada to succeed in the global race to net-zero, new approaches and new ways of working together are critical. Differences between levels of governments, […]

CAPI has launched a new series of Policy Pop-Ups that explores current policy issues in an effort to make policy more relatable and address how policy affects those in the agri-food sector. This video series was funded in part by the Government of Canada under the Canadian Agricultural Partnership’s AgriCompetitiveness Program. Check out the Policy […]

The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) and the Ontario Agriculture College are hosting a presentation and panel discussion on the important topic of the resiliency of Canada’s agri-food supply chain. Over the last several years supply chains have faced significant pressures from the pandemic, extreme weather, climate change and other disruptions. Taking a proactive approach, […]

Amid persistent climate perturbations, water quantity and quality will redefine agri-food production and trade. Meanwhile, the United Nations predict a global population of over 9.1 billion by 2050, requiring 70% more food production. Canada, the world’s 5th largest exporter of agricultural commodities, has access to upwards of 20% of the world’s surface freshwater supply and […]

With the launch of the Federal Sustainable Agriculture Strategy, the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) and Ag-West Bio are bringing together leaders to discuss the role that innovation plays in improved sustainability in agriculture. Event recording Presentation slides

The world is changing and agriculture and food are on the front lines. A multilateral system under stress, increasing demand, pressures on production and more are colliding to tighten supplies, increase food insecurity, and challenge trade. As a top food-exporting nation, how Canada chooses to respond will define our place in the world. Canada has […]

2022 saw agriculture and food dominate the headlines in ways not seen in recent history. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, food inflation, rising interest rates, supply chain disruptions and the federal fertilizer emission reduction target have all impacted agriculture and food policy in Canada.  While it was a year full of disruption, it is unclear […]

Who does what in agriculture is not always easy to understand based on official statistics. On November 23rd, Statistics Canada released a report exploring what the Census of Agriculture says about the role females play in agriculture and food, but the statistics only tell part of the story.  CAPI organized a webinar where we looked […]

Prices are important signals for allocating resources efficiently. In agriculture, externalities arising from production, such as air and water pollution, or positive Ecological Goods and Services (EG&S), such as biodiversity, are not priced through the marketplace and hence are either overproduced (externalities) or underproduced (EG&S), since farmers’ production decisions will not account for these external […]