A new approach for agriculture

From CAPI Update, Winter 2010

The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) is creating a national dialogue on policy models that will enable Canada to thrive in the emerging agri-food world.

CAPI is looking ahead by exploring potential policies that will: deliver healthier foods, improve the sustainability of food production, and enhance the agri-food sector's competitive position.

CAPI has assembled three Leadership Panels to guide its work and help define novel policy options needed to address each of these core questions:

• Food and wellness connection: Can we afford to eat the same way?
• Sustainability: Can we afford to produce our food the same way?
• Viability: Should we change the way we support the agriculture agri-food sector?

Advisory in nature, the Leadership Panels are represented by the private sector, academia, NGOs and government. (Panel members are listed on the web at www.capi-icpa.ca.)

CAPI will publish project reports for each panel. Moreover, CAPI will synthesize their work. Each spring,

CAPI will publish this analysis (see timeline below) by presenting new policy ideas and identifying the policy linkages across the three themes. CAPI’s work will be relevant to the unfolding policy process leading up to — and beyond — the renewal in 2013 of Growing Forward, the five-year federal, provincial and territorial policy framework for agriculture.