Food security now depends on supply chain security

The next food shock may not start with drought or crop failure. It may start when fertilizer cannot move through a shipping lane.

The soil still matters. Farmers still matter the most. But the future of food will also be decided in shipping lanes, energy markets, and policy choices made in Ottawa, writes Asim Biswas. Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY ASIM BISWAS

June 17, 2026

For decades, food security in Canada meant one thing: farm productivity. How many bushels per acre, how efficiently we move crops from field to fork. That framing was never wrong, but it is now incomplete.

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