11th Annual Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference

Day 1

Monday January 18, 2021

12:00-12:10

Welcome Day 1

Speaker: Kara Beckles, Past President CAES, Director General of Data Integration, Privy Council Office

12:10-13:00

Fire Side Chat with the Deputy Minister and Chief Economist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Speaker: Chris Forbes – Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Speaker: Warren Goodlet – Director General, Research and Analysis Directorate, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada

13:00-13:10

Technical Break

13:10-14:10

Session 1: Almost a year later, how is the Agricultural Sector Performing through a Pandemic? And what has surprised us?

Moderator: Alan Ker, Managing Editor, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics; OAC Research Chair in Agricultural Risk and Policy; Director and Professor, Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy

Speaker: Tom Rosser, Assistant Deputy Minister

Strategic Policy Branch , Agriculture and Agri-food Canada

The Big Picture: The impact of Covid-19 across the Agri-Food Value Chain and the Policy Response

Speaker: Ellen Goddard, Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Science – Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology U of Alberta

The New Normal in Grocery and Food Service 

Speaker: Bruno Larue, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Laval University

Labor Issues along Agri-Food Supply Chain

Speaker: Getu Hailu, Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (FARE), University of Guelph

The Effects of Coronavirus on the Economic Activity of Food Manufacturing

Sponsored by: Solomon Sinclair Farm Management Institute, University Manitoba

14:10-14:20

Technical Break

14:20-15:10

Session 2: Empowering policy dialogue with data visualization

Moderator: Alain Beaudoin, Assistant Secretary to Cabinet, Results and Delivery, Privy Council Office

Speaker: Kirsten Smith, Research Associate, Center for Global Energy Policy at Columbia University

Speaker: Annette Hester, CEO, The Hester View Inc.

Speaker: Ryan Hum, VP of Data and Chief Information Officer, Canada Energy Regulator

15:10-15:20

Technical Break

15:20-16:00

Session 3: WTF (What The Farm): Data Governance and the Democratization of Agri-Food Data

Moderator: Tyler Whale, President, Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

Speaker: Bianca Wylie, Co-founder, Tech Reset Canada

Speaker: Karen Hand, Founder and President, Precision Strategic Solutions

16:00-16:10

Technical Break

16:10-17:10

Net Working Sessions – Student Poster Competition (Via Hubs)

Sponsored by: The Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy

11th Annual Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference

Day 2

Tuesday January 19, 2021

12:00-12:10

Welcome Day 2

Speaker: Kara Beckles, Past President CAES, Director General of Data Integration, Privy Council Office

Voting: Student Poster Competition (Polling)  Now OPEN

12:10-12:50

Session 4: World Outlook & Trade

Moderator: Lindsay Boldt, Director, Market Development

Market Access Coordination, Agriculture Agri-food Canada

Speaker: Lee Ann Jackson, Head of Division, Agro-Food Trade and Markets, OECD

12:50-13:00

Technical Break

13:00-13:50

Session 5: Munk Debate

“Government policies seeking to reduce food waste are an effective means of addressing food security.”

Moderator: Brady Deaton, McCain Family Chair in Food Security, Professor Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Guelph

Debater 1“Against”: Jayson Lusk, Distinguished Professor and Head Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

Debater 2 “For”: Mike Von Massow, OAC Chair in Food System Leadership, Associate Professor, Food Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Guelph

Sponsored by: McCain Family Chair in Food Security

13:50-14:00

Technical Break

14:00-15:10

Session 6: Agriculture’s role in combatting Climate Change and helping meet targets: lessons from around the Globe

Moderator: Warren Goodlet, Director General, Research and Analysis Directorate, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Speaker: Rachel Samson, Director, Clean Growth Research at the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices

Speaker: Scott McFatridge, Senior Research Associate at Smart Prosperity Institute

Speaker: Sarah Sijses, Senior Policy Advisor at the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality

Speaker: Phil Houlding, Director, International Policy, New Zealand

15:10-15:20

Technical Break

15:20-16:20

Session 7: What a Biden Presidency may mean for Canadian Agriculture

Moderator: Alan Ker, Managing Editor, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics; OAC Research Chair in Agricultural Risk and Policy; Director and Professor, Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy

Speaker: Joe Glauber, Senior Research Fellow, Markets Trade and Institutions Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC

Speaker: Jason Grant, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Agricultural Trade, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech

Speaker: Ryan Cardwell, Professor in the Department of Agribusiness & Agricultural Economics at the University of Manitoba

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

11th Annual Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference

Title: Paper Sessions

Day 3

Wednesday January 20, 2021

12:00-13:10

Presidential Address:  Fostering a Culture of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Canadian Agricultural Economics Profession

Speaker: Emmanuel Yiridoe, President CAES

13:10-13:20

Technical Break

13:20-13:50

Student Poster Competition Presentations

Moderator: Kara Beckles, Past President CAES, Director General of Data Integration, Privy Council Office

Sponsored by: The Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy

13:50-14:00

Technical Break

14:00-15:00

Paper Session 1: Water

Moderator: Patrick Lloyd Smith, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at the University of Saskatchewan

How does water quality affect people’s recreation behavior and welfare in Alberta

Presenters: Nasim Aminikhezri, Patrick Lloyd-Smith University of Saskatchewan

Economic value of water quality improvements in Ontario

Presenters: Rashadur Rahman, Patrick Lloyd-Smith University of Saskatchewan

Freshwater Abundance and Residents’ Donation Behavior Towards Water Conservation

Presenters: Danielle Roy, Tongzhe Li University of Guelph

15:00-15:10

Technical Break

15:10-16:20

Paper Session 2: Production Economics

Moderator: Aaron De Laporte, Senior Research Associate in the Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Guelph

Profitability of Wild Blueberry Production Using Alternative Mechanical Harvesting Technologies, and Accounting for Alternative Harvester Services Acquisition Methods

Presenters: Ahmad Khan,  Emmanuel Yiridoe, Travis Esau, Prosper Koto, Qamar Zaman, Dalhousie University and Aitazaz Farooque University of Prince Edward Island

Did Business Risk Management Programs Induce Risk Balancing Behavior in Grain and Oilseed Producers in Ontario?

Presenter: Rakhal Sarker, University of Guelph

Economic and environmental consequences of nitrogen application rates, timing and methods on Corn in Ontario

Presenters: Aaron De Laporte, Kamaljit Banger, Alfons Weersink, Claudia Wagner-Riddle, University of Guelph

16:20-17:20

Paper Session 3: Innovation

Moderator: Carla St- Croix, Executive Director, Strategic Integration and Competitiveness Policy, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Agriculture Innovation Policy in Canada: Canola, Wheat, and Pulses

Presenter: Derek Brewin, Professor and Head of the Department Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics at the University of Manitoba

Assessing Factors Limiting Health Food Innovation

Presenter: Richard Gray, Professor, Canadian Grain Policy Research Chair, University Saskatchewan

11th Annual Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference

Title: Paper Sessions

Day 4

Thursday January 21, 2021

12:00-12:10

Welcome Day 4

Speaker: Kara Beckles, Past President CAES, Director General of Data Integration, Privy Council Office

Announcement: Student Poster Competition and AAFC Policy Brief Winners

12:10-12:40

Policy Talk on Development

Speaker: (TBC)

12:40-13:40

Paper Session 4: Development

Moderator: (TBC)

Estimating Impacts of Climate Smart Practices on Food and Nutrition Security and Poverty Reduction: Empirical

Evidence from Pakistan

Presenters: Muhammad Shahzad, University of Kiel, Germany

Local socioeconomic impacts of bio-economic facilities: Evidence from a developing country experience – Nigeria

Presenters: Ewere Anyokwu Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn (s), Duy Nong Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR), University of Bonn, Germany

13:40-13:50

Technical Break

13:50-14:20

Policy Talk Yield: Investment and Science Side of work we do with Stats can Measuring yields

Speaker: Andrew Davidson, Acting Director, ACGEO

Earth Observations, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada

14:20-15:30

Paper Session 5: Yield

Moderator: Andrew Davidson

Cover Cropping and Resiliency to Climate Variability

Speakers: Daniel Schuurman, Alfons Weersink, Claudia Wagner-Riddle, University Guelph

On the Empirical Analysis with Yield Data: Sup-Type Test of Distributional Equivalence when Break is Unknown

Speakers: Alan Ker, Hanjun Lu, University of Guelph

15:30-15:40

Technical Break

15:40-16:40

Paper Session 6: Livestock

Moderator: Danny Le Roy, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Lethbridge

A Domestic Resource Cost Analysis of Ontario Dairy Farms in the New Millennium

Speakers: Rakhal Sarker, Vivian Tran University of Guelph

Modelling the Economic Impacts of an ASF Outbreak on Ontario’s Pork Sector

Speakers: Scott Biden, Alan Ker University of Guelph

What to do with CWD: A Comparison of Multiple Stakeholder Perspectives on Preferred CWD Management Strategies

Speakers: John Pattison-Williams, Ellen Goddard, Marty Luckert, Viktor Adamowicz, University of Alberta

11th Annual Canadian Agri-Food Policy Conference

Title: Living Labs Workshop

Day 5

Friday January 22, 2021

13:00-17:10

Evaluation of Public Programs Using Simulation and Stated Preference Methods:

The Case of the Living Laboratory Initiatives

Organized by: Getu Hailu, University of Guelph

Cyprien Awono and Bruce Phillips, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)

The Role of Socio-Economic Analyses in AAFC’s Living Laboratories Initiative

Presenter: Cyprien Awono, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)

The Role of Farm-Level Simulation in Evaluating the Economics of BMP Adoption

Presenter: Scott Jeffrey, University Alberta

Specific BMPs in Prince Edward Island: Costs of Implementation and Net Benefits of BMPs

Presenter: Patrick Withey (St. Francis Xavier University) and Van Lantz (University of New-Brunswick)

Laboratory and Field Experiments: Why, When, and How

Presenter: Tongzhe Li, University of Guelph

Examining the Barriers and Incentives of BMP Adoption

Presenters: Jun Zhao and Margot McComb (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada); Marina Puzyreva and Geoffrey Gunn (International Institute for Sustainable Development)

Evaluating Landowner Preferences for BMP Programs

Presenter: Vic Adamowicz, University of Alberta

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