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Ag Policy Connection: Tackling food waste through a systems approach, with Lori Nikkel
Apr 1, 2026
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Ag Policy Connection: Innovation at the heart of food security and resilience, says Alison Sunstrum
Mar 16, 2026
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Ag Policy Exchange: Finding common ag policy ground among countries in a divided world
Mar 12, 2026
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Ag Policy Connection: On margins and mindset — The case for benchmarking farm management performance
Feb 24, 2026
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Ag Policy Connection: Rethinking funding for plant breeding, with Jason Reinheimer
Feb 3, 2026
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| 4/1/26 |  Ag Policy Connection: Tackling food waste through a systems approach, with Lori Nikkel | A staggering share of Canada’s food never gets eaten—and Lori Nikkel says that’s a systems problem, not an accident. In this episode of the Ag Policy Connection podcast, Lori Nikkel, CEO of Second Harvest, outlines why a national food waste strategy is critical to strengthening Canada’s food system. Second Harvest, Canada’s largest food rescue organization,... Read More | — | ||||||
| 3/16/26 | Ag Policy Connection: Innovation at the heart of food security and resilience, says Alison Sunstrum | Agriculture is often framed as an economic driver, but Alison Sunstrum says that Canada should treat it as something far more strategic: national security. In this conversation on the Ag Policy Connection podcast with co-hosts Tyler McCann and Elise Bigley of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI), Sunstrum—CEO of ConserveX, managing partner at NYA Ventures,... Read More | — | ||||||
| 3/12/26 | Ag Policy Exchange: Finding common ag policy ground among countries in a divided world | Global agriculture is navigating a period of profound geopolitical, economic, and environmental upheaval, raising urgent questions about how our food systems can remain sustainable, resilient, profitable, and for many, affordable. While politics and conflicts may divide nations and thicken borders, food — and the policies around how it is produced and where it goes —... Read More | — | ||||||
| 2/24/26 | Ag Policy Connection: On margins and mindset — The case for benchmarking farm management performance | Better management doesn’t just improve margins — it could reshape how Canada designs farm policy. In this episode of the Ag Policy Connection podcast, Tyler McCann and Elise Bigley of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute sit down with Terry Betker, founder of Backswath Management, to explore a deceptively simple but far-reaching idea: build a national... Read More | — | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | Ag Policy Connection: Rethinking funding for plant breeding, with Jason Reinheimer | It's time to rethink how we fund plant breeding. While much of Canadian agriculture has evolved to meet today’s demands, the model for funding plant breeding is lagging—and risks falling behind entirely. That’s the concern raised by Jason Reinheimer, global head of cereals and pulse research at Limagrain Field Seeds, in this episode of the... Read More | — | ||||||
| 1/19/26 | Ag Policy Connection: A new Plan A for Canadian agricultural trade | This Ag Policy Connection episode features a wide-ranging conversation with Carlo Dade, Director of International Policy at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, on the future of Canadian agricultural trade amid profound global change. Dade outlines how Canada has entered a period of generational upheaval in international trade, driven by shifting U.S. policy,... Read More | — | ||||||
| 12/19/25 | Ag Policy Connection: Challenging the future of supply management, with Greg Meredith | Supply management has long provided price stability and income predictability for Canadian dairy and poultry producers, but its sustainability is under growing pressure. That’s the message from Greg Meredith, a retired senior civil servant who served in both federal and provincial agriculture ministries, in a new episode of the Ag Policy Connection podcast. In this... Read More | — | ||||||
| 11/26/25 | Ag Policy Connection: What's the role of private business in risk management programs? | Farming has always been a risky business. Regardless of how carefully chosen a variety or fertility rate, Mother Nature always gets the last laugh. Now, with globally-integrated supply chains, market disruptions, and ever-higher stakes for input costs, Canada’s business risk management (BRM) programs are being pushed to evolve. But is the current public delivery model... Read More | — | ||||||
| 3/5/25 | Ag Policy Connection S3 Ep. 6 — The next generation shaping Canada's land-use policy | After spending the past five episodes exploring what drives decisions around how land is used across Canada, we're looking to the future, highlighting the people and research shaping land-use policy in the next generation. The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute has selected four PhD candidates/doctoral fellows at schools across Canada to develop their skills and expertise... Read More | — | ||||||
| 2/18/25 | Ag Policy Connection, S3 Ep. 5 — The great land use debate: who should decide how land is used? | With farmland under pressure from urban expansion, conservation needs, and economic development, it raises the critical — and contentious — question: who should decide how land is used? Private landowners' rights are essential and rightfully expected in Canada, but there's also an argument to be made that the public has a stake in land-use decisions... Read More | — | ||||||
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| 2/3/25 | Ag Policy Connection S3 Ep. 4 — Housing or farmland – How to balance the two? | Some parts of the country have seen more success protecting farmland than other regions, but when you add it up, Canada continues to lose an astonishing amount of farmland to urban expansion. The oft-cited statistic from the most recent Census of Agriculture is that Ontario alone loses an average of 319 acres of farmland every... Read More | — | ||||||
| 1/20/25 | Ag Policy Connection, S3 Ep. 3 — The economics driving land use change | When it comes to land use, some ways that land provides value are easy to measure and monetize, such as growing crops, raising livestock, or developing real estate. But other types of value, especially those that benefit broader society, like providing biodiversity, wildlife habitat preservation, carbon sequestration, and flood or fire risk mitigation, are much... Read More | — | ||||||
| 1/6/25 | Ag Policy Connection, S3 Ep. 2: — New approaches for landowners to get paid for land conservation | Across much of Canada, there have traditionally been very few options for landowners to get paid for the overall value created by land conservation. Whether it's grassland, farmland, or a different form of natural habitat, the broader societal benefits of that land often go unrecognized. Instead, land is converted, sold, and developed for uses that... Read More | — | ||||||
| 12/16/24 | Ag Policy Connection, S3 Ep. 1: Farmland under pressure (Season 3 premiere) | Land is a fundamental and finite resource, yet it is easy to overlook its value in our everyday lives. Canada may have an abundance of land, but those acres are under immense pressure to serve multiple purposes—residential and industrial development, food production, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, solar and wind energy generation, recreation, and more. As we... Read More | — | ||||||
| 10/28/24 | Ag Policy Connection, Ep. 16 — Piecing together the elements of real change | Hot on the heels of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute's conference on sustainability and agri-food, occasional Ag Policy Connection host, Shaun Haney, sat down with Tyler McCann, managing director of CAPI, Darlene McBain of FCC, and Sara Kate Smith of Clear Strategy, to unpack two days of policy panels, discussion, and insight. In this episode... Read More | — | ||||||
| 10/18/24 | Ag Policy Connection Ep. 15 — Should we make sustainability Canada's number one competitive advantage? | A competitive advantage in the business world refers to factors that allow a company to produce goods or services for more value than their rivals. It's when a business is better at making, selling, and ultimately, profiting from a product than their competitors. Canada's agriculture and food sector, as a whole, has a strong story... Read More | — | ||||||
| 9/24/24 | Union targeting critical grain movement timing with port strike, says WGEA | Update: Grain workers who were on strike in Vancouver are returning to work as early as Saturday (Sept. 28) morning after reaching a tentative four year deal on Friday evening. Read more here. The timing couldn't be worse for a port strike and the union representing grain workers in the six main grain terminals in... Read More | — | ||||||
| 7/18/24 | Ag Policy Connection, Ep. 14 — The keys to better ag policy: takeaways from Season 2 | Developing good ag policy that improves the long-term sustainability of Canadian agriculture — economic, environmental, and social — is a messy process that requires a mix of many things, including engaged stakeholders, good data to inform decisions, and enough people willing to take action and lead with long-term vision. This was clear as we discussed... Read More | — | ||||||
| 7/4/24 | Ag Policy Connection Ep. 13 — How farmers decide whether to adopt a new sustainability practice | Farmers and ranchers face many pressures to farm and raise animals in certain ways to meet sustainability-related goals of others, including food companies, lenders, and government. Clauses in crop contracts, carbon credits, government payments for rotational grazing or using nitrogen loss inhibitors, the federal fertilizer emissions reduction target, clean fuel standards, codes of practice, and... Read More | — | ||||||
| 6/6/24 | Ag Policy Connection Ep. 12 — Reducing methane while raising more cattle in the real world | Methane emissions from cattle have received plenty of mainstream attention over the past decade, with calls to eat less beef often not accounting for the carbon sequestration and biodiversity benefits of producing highly-nutritious food on grasslands. The panel in this episode of the Ag Policy Connection ruminates on how environmental policies can help or hinder... Read More | — | ||||||
| 5/31/24 | Ag Policy Connection, Ep. 11 — The future of ag extension | The term "agricultural extension" generally refers to the process of applying new research and knowledge to help farmers improve farming methods and techniques. While this concept has existed for thousands of years, the word "extension" itself dates back to the 1860s in England when universities made an attempt to extend practical information through lectures outside... Read More | — | ||||||
| 5/23/24 | Ag Policy Connection Ep. 10 — The future of trade with carbon tariffs, green subsidies, and protectionist politics | Governments in many countries are enacting policies aimed at mitigating climate change — massive subsidies, carbon levies, and strict regulations — that also have consequences on trade flows. Billions of dollars of incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S., the Canadian government's carbon taxes, and the EU's biofuel feedstock requirements and carbon border... Read More | — | ||||||
| 5/17/24 | Ag Policy Connection Ep. 9 — What should carry the most weight in deciding how land gets used? | There are many priorities that influence how land is used — the need for housing and economic development often drives the conversion of farmland and natural habitat into urban or suburban landscapes, but food security, productivity, biodiversity, crop or livestock prices, renewable energy policy, and of course, NIMBYism are among the many factors that can... Read More | — | ||||||
| 5/9/24 | Ag Policy Connection Ep. 8 — The future of federal sustainability and environmental policies | When it comes to agriculture and the environment, some people see agriculture as a solution, while others view it as a problem. And in politics, people with different perspectives and levels of awareness about farming often sit in the same caucus or cabinet, influencing where a party stands on environmental policies that affect agriculture. Canada's... Read More | — | ||||||
| 5/2/24 | Ag Policy Connection Ep. 7 — Whiskey's for drinking, water is...a strategic asset | Canada is in the extremely fortunate position of having an abundance of one of the world's most critical resources — one that is often taken for granted, until there's not enough, or too much. Whether talking about multi-year droughts, algal blooms on Lake Erie, or economic potential through irrigation, there are massive opportunities and challenges... Read More | — | ||||||
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