Changes south of the border offer both challenges and opportunities for sustainable agriculture in Canada

There are opportunities to rework a national food policy to tackle head on some of the domestic sustainability challenges in Canada’s agricultural sector.

Canada's federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay, pictured last November in China on an agricultural delegation to China. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY MARIE-JOSéE MASSICOTTE, RYAN M. KATZ-ROSENE

February 20, 2017

A number of obstacles presently stand in the way of efforts to make Canada’s agricultural system more sustainable. A heavy reliance on chemical inputs, industrial processing, and long distances between far...

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