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The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute’s (CAPI) Board Member Richard Gray argues in his opinion piece, published in the newspaper La Vie Agricole on January 15, 2020, that for far too long farmers have been producing environmental benefits for Canadian society without any financial or moral credit for their efforts. If a climate change policy that […]

The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute’s (CAPI) Board Member Richard Gray argues in his opinion piece, published in the National Newswatch on January 7, 2020, that for far too long farmers have been producing environmental benefits for Canadian society without any financial or moral credit for their efforts. If a climate change policy that really works […]

An op-ed from the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) was published in the French newspaper La Terre de chez nous on December 11, 2019. Download a PDF copy (in French only). View the CAPI study Efficient Agriculture as a Greenhouse Gas Solutions Provider

On December 5, 2019, the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute’s President and CEO Dr. Don Buckingham addressed the participants of the Farm Management Canada Agricultural Excellence Conference. Bern Tobin, reporter at RealAgriculture, spoke with Dr. Buckingham and discussed the potential impact of future black swans. Read the article by Bern Tobin from December 7, 2019: go […]

The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) sponsored the Agricultural Innovation 2019 campaign by Innovating Canada in partnership with the National Post. For this Agricultural Innovation campaign, CAPI produced an opinion piece which has been published in print within the National Post on December 5, 2019 and online at Innnovating Canada via Mediaplanet. Read CAPI’s opinion […]

This opinion piece by Laura Rance entitled: “Key item missing from farmers’ resumés – Food producers should also be positioning themselves as providers of climate change solutions”, published in the Winnipeg Free Press on November 30, 2019, highlights some key takeaways of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute’s study entitled: “Efficient Agriculture as a Greenhouse Gas Solutions […]

This article published in the National Newswatch on November 19, 2019, reporter Alex Binkley highlights the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute’s (CAPI) study on water & agriculture. “Wetlands need to be treated as an important component in sustainable agriculture systems and farmers should be encouraged to protect them for the benefits they offer, says a report […]

In an op-ed, Dr. Don Buckingham, CEO at the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) argues that agriculture has been blamed as a major contributor to the planet’s warming climate when in fact it should be seen as part of the solution. The op-ed entitled “Don’t overlook modern Canadian agriculture as part of the climate-change solution” […]

In this article by Alex Binkley published in the National Newswatch on November 4, 2019, the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute’s (CAPI) President and CEO Dr. Don Buckingham says: “A new film about cattle grazing on the dwindling Prairie grasslands is a story-telling exercise that should inspire the whole agrifood sector into following suit by building […]

CAPI was featured in this article by John Greig published in the Manitoba Cooperator on October 25, 2019 and refers to our CAPI report that: “paints a picture of Canadian agriculture and greenhouse gas emissions that runs counter to commonly held public perceptions”.