CAPI recognizes the importance of fostering and mentoring the next generation of thought leaders emerging from Doctoral programs across Canada, who are working in multi-disciplinary fields. Through this program, CAPI offers a small, innovative group of young students the opportunity to apply their newfound knowledge and expertise to some of agriculture’s most critical policy issues. […]
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08.06.2023
CAPI’s recent focus on trade, food security and the changing geopolitical and market environment along with climate change have helped identify some of the key new challenges and opportunities facing the Canadian agriculture and agri-food sector in this new world of scarcity not abundance. These developments are putting pressure on Canada’s natural capital and resources […]
29.05.2023
Canada has bold policy aspirations on climate change mitigation, and these extend into agriculture. The most recent evidence is the federal government initiative on a Sustainable Agriculture Strategy, aiming to work with industry groups to secure greater action at the farm level to reduce greenhouse gas emission and increase carbon sequestration. However, with agriculture an […]
20.03.2023
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 […]
24.02.2023
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 […]
09.02.2023
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 […]
25.01.2023
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 […]
15.12.2022
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 […]
14.10.2022
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 […]
31.07.2022
Annual Report Financial Statements of Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute March 31, 2022