Volume 3 – Issue 6

November 2021

By James Meadowcroft, PhD

This report examines recent developments in Canada’s agri-food sector, focusing on emerging trends with the potential to disrupt existing practices and their implications for sustainability.

Over the past century Canada has built a modern, industrialised, and internationally competitive agri-food sector that contributes substantially to the country’s employment, exports, and GDP. Yet existing agri-food systems face multiple challenges with respect to long-term economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Getting to net-zero GHG emissions in Canada by 2050 will require a major transformation of the existing fossil-fuel-dependent agri-food sector.

Cite this document:
Meadowcroft, J. (2021). Disruptive Forces Influencing the Sustainability of Canada’s Agri-food Sector. Transition Accelerator Reports Vol. 3, Issue 6, Pg. 1-31. ISSN 2562-6264.

English version of this document available at www.transitionaccelerator.ca