Five key issues facing Canada’s agri-food industry

Recent events show there's no entitlement to the continued prosperity of our agri-food value chain, which should spur Canadian agri-food to think differently about new and old problems in the sector.

The Canadian agri-food industry is facing massive challenges. New problems continue to pop up, and old ones persist. Without a change in how we do things, we'll never achieve our full potential, writes Stanford Blade.Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY STANFORD BLADE

March 23, 2020

“Agriculture is a legacy industry.” “We need to feed nine billion people by 2050.” “Food security isn’t a production issue, it is a distribution problem.”

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