Draft Agenda – 12th Annual Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference

12th Annual Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference

Day 1: Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Times: (EST)

Welcome Day 1

Speaker: Emmanuel Yiridoe, Past-President, CAES, Professor, Department of Business and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University

Opening Session : Revitalizing Indigenous Food Systems through engagement and research

Moderator: Lisa Charette, Director Indigenous Policy Division, Strategic Policy Branch, Policy Planning Integration Division, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada
Topic: Regional Engagement Sessions on Indigenous Agriculture and Agri-Foods

Speaker: Emily Missyabit McAuley, Director, Indigenous Science Liaison Office and Interdepartmental Indigenous STEM (I-STEM) Cluster , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Topic: Indigenous Science and Western Knowledge in Food Systems Research

Speaker: Kyle Bobiwash, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Scholar, University Manitoba
Topic: Indegenous Issues in Food Systems

Technical Break

Session 1: Climate Change and Food Security: Canadian and International Perspectives

Moderator: Yu Na Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph

Speaker:  Alfons Weersink, Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
Topic: Climate Change, Agricultural Production, and Domestic Food Insecurity

Speaker:  Brent Swallow, Professor, Department of Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta.
Topic: Policy Approaches to Syndemics of Obesity, Undernutrition and Climate Change

Speaker:   G.C. van Kooten, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Economics, University of Victoria
Topic: Food Security and Climate Change

Sponsored by: Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph

Technical Break

Session 2: Treaty Rights and Property Rights:  Understanding Natural Resource Conservation and Management in First Nations

Moderator: Viktoriya Galushko, Associate Professor, Department of Economics University of Regina

Speaker: Glenn Fox, Professor (Retired), Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
Topic: Property Rights, Governance and Natural Resources in Canadian First Nations Communities

Speaker:  L. Jane McMillan, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Saint Francis Xavier University
Topic: Treaty Rights and Netukulimk Livelihood Plans: The Resurgence of Natural Resource Governance in Mi’kma’ki

Speaker:   David Natcher, Professor, Department of Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan.
Topic: Implications of Yahey v British Columbia (2021) on the Territorial Rights of Treaty 8 First Nations in Northeast British Columbia

Technical Break

Session 3: Financial Support in Canadian Agriculture

Moderator: Alan Ker Managing Editor, CJAE; OAC Research Chair in Agricultural Risk and Policy; Director and Professor, Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy, Professor,  Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph

Speaker: Scott Ross, Assistant Executive Director, Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Topic: Managing risk in the face of uncertainty: Producer perspectives on adaptations to risk management programming

Speaker:  Shaun Soonias, Director of Indigenous Relations, Farm Credit Canada
Topic: Indigenous Agriculture:  Moving from lessors to leaders in Agriculture

Sponsored by: Sol Sinclair Institute for Farm Management, Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, University of Manitoba

Move to Student Presentations

Net Working Sessions – Student Poster Competition Presentations

Voting: Student Poster Competition (Polling)  Now OPEN

Day 2: Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Welcome Day 2

Speaker: Emmanuel Yiridoe, Past President, CAES, Professor, Department of Business and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University

Voting: Student Poster Competition (polling in-progress and closes at 13:00)

Session 4: Keynote Presentation

Chairperson: Pascal Ghazalian, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Lethbridge

Keynote Speaker: Brady Deaton Jr., McCain Family Chair in Food Security, and Professor, Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Guelph
Topic: Food Security: Measure, Meaning and Policy Matters

Technical Break

Session 5: Food Price Inflation

Moderator: Heidi Ertl, Director, Consumer Prices, Statistics Canada

Speaker: Sean Alldridge, Economist, Consumer Prices Program, Statistics Canada
Topic: Understanding Food Price Inflation: How It’s Measured in the Consumer Price Index, Recent Trends and Ongoing Work

Speaker: Valerie Tarasuk, Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto
Topic: Food price inflation and household food insecurity: potential impacts and implications

13:50-14:00

Technical Break

Session 6: Cooperatives and Food Security in Northern Territories

Moderator: Ellen Goddard, Professor and Co-operative Chair, Agricultural Marketing and Business, Department of Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta

Speaker:  Duane Wilson, Vice President, Stakeholder Relations, Arctic Co-operatives Limited
Topic: Food Security in Northern Territories: An Arctic Coop Perspective

Speaker: Al Phillips, Partner, and Director of Research, A.J. Phillips & Associates, Winnipeg, MB
Topic: Structural and Operational Challenges to Food Security in Thin Markets

Technical Break

Session 7: Canadian Agriculture and Food Sectors beyond Covid-19 Pandemic

Moderator: Warren Goodlet, Director General, Research and Analysis Division, Strategic Policy Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Speaker: Bruno Larue, Professeur titulaire/Professor, Département d’économie agroalimentaire et sciences de la consummation, Université Laval
Topic: On the Economics of Meat Processing, Livestock Queuing and Worker Safety

Speaker:  Jill E. Hobbs, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan
Topic: Supply Chain Resilience: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Speaker:  Ryan Cardwell, Professor, Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, University of Manitoba
Topic: Food Policies and Markets Two Years into the Covid-19 Pandemic

Closing Remarks: Ellen Goddard, President, CAES

Day 3: Wednesday, January 20, 2022

Welcome Day 3

Speaker: Ellen Goddard, Professor and Co-operative Chair, Agricultural Marketing and Business, Department of Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta

Announcement: Student Poster Competition and AAFC Policy Brief Winners

Post-Conference Workshop: The Economics of Climate Change

Climate change is one of the most important contemporary issues of our time. The agri-food supply chain is sensitive to weather and thus directly affected by climate change. Climate change poses considerable challenges to every aspect of the global food supply chain economy. Agricultural and resource economists can contribute to our understanding of the economics of climate change by assessing agri-food producers’ behavioural response to climate change, evaluating the economic costs of adaptation and mitigation strategies, and informing economic policies. This 180-minutes virtual workshop brings together top agricultural economics scholars in climate economics to share and discuss research on the topic. In this workshop, panellists will discuss and share their research on the agri-food economy and sustainability, crop yield and risk management, adaptation behaviour in the face of climate change. Experts from Statistics Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada will share information on emissions data and procedures for accessing emissions data. This workshop is targeted toward government policy analysts and academic researchers who wish to conduct economic research related to climate change.

Presenters:
Mary Doidge, McGill University
Alan Ker, Professor, University of Guelph
David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley
Maxime Gaudet, Statistics Canada, EESD/DSEE
Doug MacDonald, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Dan MacDonald, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Speaker: Maxime Gaudet – Statistics Canada,
Topic: The Farm Management Survey (FMS)

Speaker: Dan MacDonald – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Topic: Modelling Carbon and GHG Emissions and Removals for Canada’s GHG Inventory

Speaker: Doug MacDonald – Environment and Climate Change Canada
Topic: Reporting of Agricultural GHG Emissions in the National Inventory Report