In this paper, CAPI’s Intern explores how India might look to Canada for guidance to develop policy options to encourage Indian beef producers. Better land management practices such as improved water management and rotational grazing would reduce India’s GHG emissions. Canada exemplifies success in mitigating GHG emissions and engagement for continual progress.

In this paper, prepared for the Clean Economy Fund, the authors discuss two major challenges facing the world in the 21st century: climate change and food security. Agriculture sits at the centre of the proverbial “eye of the storm” due to its contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change, and the impact climate change will have on agriculture and future food production. The challenge remains whether agricultural production can grow enough to produce nutritious, affordable, and accessible food to meet the demands of an increasing global population, without degrading the environment or depleting the natural resource base or “natural capital”.

This paper, commissioned by CAPI, examines environmental and water quality issues in Quebec and agricultural production generates negative externalities through its environmental impacts, which can have adverse effects on human health, on aquatic fauna and on the recreational potential of rivers and lakes.

This paper, commissioned by CAPI, critically examines the issue of externality in agriculture and what can be done about it. In this regard, it is important to remember that something might be identified as a problem but may, in fact, not be a problem – we should not simply assume a problem exists and then try to solve it without knowing whether the problem even exists or not.

In this paper, the authors explain the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and its benefits to Canadian agriculture.  

This paper, commissioned by CAPI, examines how cattle and beef production have gained a negative opinion by some segments of the general public. However, past research done within the Canadian Prairie and in other regions have demonstrated that with appropriate management, cattle on native grasslands can increase some of the ecosystem goods and services (EG&S) that we value. Many studies highlight that moderate levels of grazing maintain biodiversity and soil carbon at levels above what these systems provide when grazing is removed, and especially above the level provided by other land uses, such as cultivation.

In this paper, commissioned by CAPI, the author examines agri-environmental conservation programs in Canada which have tended to rely on subsidized conservation. Well-functioning land and credit markets, combined with widely available public and private extension, suggest that there are few barriers to the use of conservation practices that provide on-farm benefits to farmers and landowners (Lichtenberg 2014). There is therefore little justification for subsidies to encourage adoption of a conservation practice like zero tillage, which provides substantial on-farm benefits.

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 […]

CAPI recently identified four strategic areas of focus for prioritizing its policy research: enhancing natural capital, optimizing growth, facilitating trade, and securing public trust. It is in the context of facilitating trade that CAPI set out to learn more about the Chinese market, how it is evolving, and how Canadian agri-food exporters could expand trade […]

In this paper, CAPI’s summer Masters intern explores the science behind producing in vitro meat and the possibility of adapting current Canadian regulations to address this emerging food technology.