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Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) presents real risks to trade in agricultural products, for food security among Northern, remote, and First Nations communities and the future of all cervids including already threatened species such as the Boreal Caribou, not to mention the potential risks of human transmission.   CAPI has highlighted actions that should be seriously considered in […]

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) presents real risks to trade in agricultural products, for food security among Northern, remote, and First Nations communities and the future of all cervids including already threatened species such as the Boreal Caribou, not to mention the potential risks of human transmission.   CAPI commissioned a study by University of Alberta economists, Dr. […]

Adopting soil conservation practices in agriculture could help ensure the long-term productivity of our land and increase the resilience of our agricultural systems, while helping mitigate climate change by promoting soil carbon sequestration in soil. Is this a silver bullet, or are there any trade-offs between yield, soil health and carbon storage in soil? While […]

Cover crops are often viewed with skepticism by Prairie farmers due to the limitations of the short growing seasons and the unpredictable weather. Increasingly early adopter farmers are adapting cover crops to Prairie cropping systems and environmental conditions. However, there remains a lack of information on how farmers in the Prairies are using cover crops, […]

This research by 2020-2022 CAPI Doctoral Fellow Hannah Lieberman examines how increases in flooding, due to climate change, impact C, N and P dynamics and microbial activity in agricultural soil. A short-term laboratory experiment was carried out to examine how flood duration and intensity impacts these factors. It was found that both the stable, mineral bound and […]

Scaling natural climate solutions in agriculture is increasingly being explored as an important pathway to achieve national net-zero targets. This report by 2020-2022 CAPI Doctoral Fellow Lisa Ashton provides an overview of the actors and governance mechanisms that influence the implementation of natural climate solutions in Canadian agriculture. A deeper understanding of the present situation […]

On November 27th CAPI organized a small invitation-only virtual dialogue with the commissioned report The Feasibility of Small Local Meatpacking Plants in Canada. At this dialogue, a select group of industry stakeholders from federal and provincial governments, industry associations and the meatpacking industry had the opportunity to discuss their views on whether the current structure […]

The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute and Arrell Food Institute gathered evidence on what happened to the Canadian food system during the pandemic.

In an effort to understand better whether Canada’s meat packing industry would have been more or less resilient during COVID, if there were more, smaller, regionally dispersed meat packing plants across Canada, CAPI commissioned a study on “the Feasibility of Small Local Meat Packing Plants in Canada”, with some interesting results.

Launched in May 2020, the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) and the Arrell Food Institute collaborated on the Growing Stronger initiative to determine how COVID has impacted the Canadian Food System and how we can build a more resilient system going forward. As part of this partnership CAPI hosted a small virtual dialogue titled “Green […]