This presentation, by Ted Bilyea, CAPI Special Advisor, was presented at CAPI’s Dialogue on “Optimizing Land Use for Sustainable Growth” on February 21-22, 2019 in Calgary AB. This event was the success it was because of the great speakers, discussants and actively engaged participants, including next gen’s, who contributed to this important CAPI conversation.

In this paper, commissioned by CAPI, the author explains how the agricultural sector will inevitably be one of the first sectors to be hit, and to be hit hardest by the impacts of a changing climate. For example, given the increasing economic challenges for Canadian farmers, it will be important that society help pay for […]

In this paper, commissioned by CAPI, the author explains the role of biological carbon sequestration in agriculture in improving soil quality as well as in providing a solution to climate change through its impacts on net GHG emissions.

In this paper, commissioned by CAPI, the author discusses the importance of genomic technologies in livestock sector which can simultaneously bolster industry competitiveness by lowering input costs and by decreasing GHG emissions through their impacts on feed efficiency.

In this paper, commissioned by CAPI, the author begins to analyze the linkages between Canadian government support programs, namely Business Risk Management (BRM) program suite, and agricultural environmental performance and production neutrality of BRM programs.