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Pressures on global supply and demand for food are not new. However, recent increases in demand, from a growing population with increasing incomes, and impacts on production, from changing climates to geopolitics, have increased the pressure to new levels. The impact of these global pressures on Canadian agriculture and food are also increasing.    It is […]

The year 2022 has seen fertilizer emerge as a globally strategic commodity, eliciting analysis in the realms of trade, transport, and investment. CAPI now joins the conversation from an agricultural policy perspective to frame the current situation, depict the medium- and long-term implications on Canadian farmers, and suggest policy solutions. Policy at the national and […]

The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute has an ongoing commitment to exploring the connection between sustainability and climate change and agriculture and food policy. Recently this has included a series of workshops, webinars and publications that have helped advance knowledge and policy solutions. This Quick Think Report builds on past CAPI research and links externalities in […]

On June 15th, 2022, Statistics Canada published its second release of data from the 2021 Census of Agriculture. This Quick Think Report compares the 2021 data with 2016 and 2011 data, providing analysis on land use and the adoption of sustainable farming practices. The colourful maps contained in this report allow readers to quickly visualize […]

The need to continue agriculture’s continuous progress in improving environmental outcomes is clear. This Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) Quick Think Report offers considerations on whether cross-compliance should be used to leverage risk management programming to improve environment outcomes.  CAPI was commissioned to prepare a report on considerations with cross-compliance within business risk management programs […]

Canada has two systems of meat inspection, consistent with agriculture as a matter of joint jurisdiction of provincial and federal governments. The two regulatory systems create distinct processing plant segments, and geographic fragmentation in meat marketing and trade across the country…

Environment Farm Plan programming has been a part of the Canadian agricultural landscape since the ‘90s. The global marketplace for Canada’s agri-food products is becoming increasingly emphatic about the need for farmers to provide proof that their operations are implementing beneficial management practices surrounding sustainability and environmental stewardship. CAPI commissioned the following paper at a […]

CAPI was commissioned by the coalition of partners of the National Index on Agri-Food Performance project to “conduct an assessment of how a National Index on Agri-Food Performance can inform the trade policy and innovation ecosystem by focusing on selected domestic and global policy priorities important for achieving sustainability of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food […]

The CAPI Doctoral Fellows are young scholars from across Canada and across disciplines tackling some of agriculture’s most critical issues. The 2020-2022 cohort investigated the issue of soil health in agricultural soils. What follows is the final report of our second cohort, a group focused on developing scientific research and data into policy surrounding climate […]

This paper presents a segment of the CAPI Distinguished Fellowship work on sustainable intensification, which was led by Dr. Susan Wood-Bohm and sponsored, in part, by the RBC Foundation and part of CAPI’s larger environmental initiative, Spearheading Solutions: Helping Farmers Operate Better, Smarter and Environmentally Sustainably. The following from Dr. Wood-Bohm represents an insightful, balanced […]