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The CAPI report identifies consumer issues about food that include health, nutrition, food safety, sustainability, ethics, food security and reliability of supply.

The ultimate consumers’ choice award

Significant change is needed throughout the sector to secure Canada’s future global competitiveness

By Alex Binkley February 9, 2016

If farmers and food manufacturers want to be ranked world leaders, then they have to prove to Canadian consumers they deserve that status, says the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute. In the final report out of a process charting the industry’s future growth that began last fall, CAPI said the sector should consider setting a goal

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MacAulay has been given his list of marching orders

Healthy food, grain transportation,  expanded trade and more basic research  are among the items on his to-do list

By Alex Binkley November 23, 2015

For the first time, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made public the mandate letters traditionally issued to every minister, and Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay’s list includes a national food policy, improved grain transportation, climate change adaptation and more basic research. MacAulay is to develop “a food policy that promotes healthy living and safe food by putting

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VIDEO: Agri-food brain trust gathers in Ottawa to ask tough questions

By Shannon VanRaes November 13, 2015

Manitoba Co-operator reporter Shannon VanRaes travelled to Ottawa for the 2015 Forum on Canada’s Agri-food Future. The event — hosted by The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute — asked a provocative question: can and should Canada become the world’s most trusted food system? Industry stakeholders, policy makers and producers provided their answers as Canada’s role in the work

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Leadership needed in agri-food policy

By Alex Binkley July 29, 2014

During the last year or so, the agri-food industry has been the subject of enough reports on its economic potential and scope for improvement to fill a respectable bookshelf. Whether from academics, researchers, think-tanks or politicians, the documents focus on virtually all the major issues. Now to keep these tomes from gathering dust. The latest

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Plenty on the plate for food security groups

By Lorraine Stevenson March 29, 2012

Residents of Winnipeg’s St. Vital neighbourhood are digesting the results of a newly released study that reflects what matters to them about food. The Winnipeg suburb is one of several sites in Manitoba to undergo community food assessments in recent months, an initiative to better understand where residents buy or access food, if they grow

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Strategic plan sought to secure future of food and the farm

By Lorraine Stevenson March 14, 2012

Late winter was historically the time of the “hunger moon.” The larder of winter food was low and people waited anxiously for the land to produce again. People could only dream of a time when they would not have to worry they had enough. In Canada “Food Freedom Day” a designation of Canadian Federation of

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Time For An Agri-Food Plan

By Lorraine Stevenson July 7, 2011

Canadians appear to agree it’s time to head down a new path in the agri-food sector, but how to set forth and who’ll take the lead remain key questions. In February the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) releasedCanada’s Agri-Food Destination: A New Strategic Approacha report, pointing out rough terrain ahead if, as a leading world

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Let’s Feed Ourselves

By Alan Guebert May 26, 2011

Squeeze almost any official of almost any agbiz or farm group and the words “Feed the world” will cross their lips. The phrase is this century’s “Manifest Destiny,” a near-imperative, a cornerstone of our export-directed ag policy. But this ambition, according to the number-crunching crew in Daryll Ray’s ag shop at the University of Tennessee,

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Canada Needs Food Policy

May 5, 2011

More than 3,500 Canadians have tabled a document calling for a national food policy that emphasizes domestic food systems, more farmers, and initiatives such as school lunch programs. CalledResetting the Table: A People’s Food Policy for Canada, the document is the first national food policy proposal to emerge from this country’s growing food movement. The

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Mother Hubbard’s Empty CCC Cupboard

March 10, 2011

On a sunny, sub-zero day 20 or so years ago, the great-grandson of a Kansas homesteader related one of the most important lessons passed on to him by his family’s boom-bust-boom generations of dryland farming. “My grandfather,” he offered, “taught us that it’s not the choices you make in the bad times that usually cause

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The ultimate consumers’ choice award

MacAulay has been given his list of marching orders

VIDEO: Agri-food brain trust gathers in Ottawa to ask tough questions

Leadership needed in agri-food policy

Plenty on the plate for food security groups

Strategic plan sought to secure future of food and the farm

Time For An Agri-Food Plan

Let’s Feed Ourselves

Canada Needs Food Policy

Mother Hubbard’s Empty CCC Cupboard

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