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CLEAN GROWTH IN CANADA’S AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOOD SECTOR - OCTOBER 2021

14 Oct 2021

Workshop participants discussed in the coming decades, as a result of population growth and an two key themes for unlocking clean growth opportunities in increase in the size and purchasing power of the global middle Canada’s agriculture and agri-food sector: (1) gauging the class. [...] In 2019, agriculture (including foods) is expected to increase significantly in the coming on-farm fuel use) accounted for 73 Mt of greenhouse gas decades, as a result of population growth and an increase in the (GHG) emissions, equal to 10% of the country’s total GHG size and purchasing power of the global middle class. [...] to increase significantly in the coming decades, as a result of population Section four provides a detailed assessment of the environmental growth and an increase in the size and economic strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) facing Canada’s agriculture and agri-food sector, and and purchasing power of the global assesses their ramifications for meeting Canada’s export growth mi. [...] With regards to higher-income export markets, Spain is the Meeting future food demand sustainably while strengthening third largest consumer of pulse crops in the entirety of the EU, the ‘Canadian Brand’ of safety and environmental sustainability and between 2006 and 2016 over 3500 new pulse products requires the sector to embrace technological change and were launched across the country. [...] main driver of emissions trends over the years is the variation in the This is followed by a recent analysis that quantifies some of the size of livestock populations (dairy and beef cattle) and the increasing non-market costs and benefits of the environmental externalities application of inorganic fertilizers for crop production (ECCC, from Canadian primary agriculture, to provide a better sense.
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