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Water is a crucial resource in the Canadian agri-food system, and its significance cannot be overstated. To highlight the importance of this issue, CAPI Distinguished Fellow Nicolas Mesly has recently authored a Perspective report, exploring the challenges faced by Quebec’s agricultural producers and processors in relation to water. This report is just one example of […]

Note from CAPI and CGAI The world is changing, and agriculture and food are on the front lines. A multilateral trading system under stress, increasing demand, pressures on production and climate change are colliding to tighten supplies, increase food insecurity, and challenge trade. As a top food-exporting nation, how Canada chooses to respond will define […]

Note from CAPI Pandemic-induced inflation and supply shortages have caused increases in input costs for Canadian agriculture, a rising trend that began before 2022.However, prices rose even higher in 2022, mainly exacerbated by the invasion of Ukraine and spiking energy costs. Such dramatic increases in input costs, primarily fertilizer, seed and fuel, added additional upward […]

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 […]