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Today, the Agri-Food Innovation Council participated in the International Market Showcase at the Americas Food & Beverage Show. AIC highlighted the impact of Canada’s agri-food innovation, including: International market potential for Canadian agricultural technologies; Post-COVID-19 priorities for the sector; How to best work with the Canadian agri-food research sector, and more. We thank Susan Harper, […]
Ottawa – Today, the Agricultural Institute of Canada (AIC) is releasing a comprehensive report on the agricultural research and innovation system: where funding is from, how policies are developed, trends, human capital, and dissemination. Some of the key findings include: Agriculture and agri-food generate $113.8 billion and one in every eight jobs in Canada (2.3 […]
We are pleased to announce that the Agricultural Insitute of Canada’s 2017 Conference will be held from April 24-26, 2017 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This year’s theme will be an interesting one: Agricultural Innovation in a Changing Environment. Please click here to learn more about the conference and register your attendance today to take advantage of […]
Input from more stakeholders would mean greater and faster innovation for the agriculture sector. By Alex Binkley, The Manitoba Cooperator It’s time for agriculture research to break out of its pipeline approach and look for new ideas wherever it can find them. That means upending the old model where ‘good’ scientific research basically saw data […]
Ottawa, ON – Recent announcements have seen 60-acres of land from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Experimental Farm in Ottawa being leased at the rate of a dollar per year to the Ottawa Hospital for its new Civic Hospital campus. The value of the land does not reside only in dollars. The scientific and historical value of […]
The Ontario Farmer – While it took the Agricultural Institute of Canada two years to craft its national agriculture research policy, it now faces at least as daunting a challenge selling it to farm and food industry groups and governments. When asked for reaction to the policy after its release, the general reaction from farm groups […]
The institute said rising population, climate change and the need to find alternatives to fossil fuels are priorities. The Manitoba Cooperator – Canada needs a forward looking agriculture research policy to help feed a burgeoning global population, cope with climate change and develop alternatives to fossil fuels, says the Agriculture Institute of Canada. It has released […]
The Ontario Farmer – AIC offers a preview of the national research strategy. The plan, put together after two years of consultrations, stresses a balance between applied and basic research. The Agricultural Institute of Canada has provided a preview of what will likely be in its national agriculture research policy that is to be released […]
On July 12-14 researchers, academics, government and industry representatives, and other agricultural research stakeholders gathered in Ottawa to help shape a modern agricultural research policy for Canada. The conference report summarizes the workshop discussions that took place. AIC will circulate the draft policy in August 2015, with the final policy aimed for release in September. […]
The Ontario Farmer – The University of Saskatchewan has received $37.2 million in funding from the federal government for research into new plant varieties that can cope with the erratic weather expected from climate change. University researchers in the Designing Crops for Global Food Security Initiative are aiming to use specific genes to create varieties of […]