Canada’s agricultural land is under increasing pressure to produce more food as demand grows domestically and internationally, while the industry grapples with limited resources and environmental constraints, a new report found.
“We need to grow more food on less land and in a volatile climate,” said Tyler McCann, managing director of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute.
Because of that, we can’t take what we do have for granted, he said. “We need to be really thoughtful about how we are using our agricultural land.” In the coming years, Canada will face increased demand from countries whose populations are growing, the report said. “We need to clearly mitigate ... agriculture’s impact on climate change. But we also need to make sure agriculture is adapting to climate change’s impacts,” he said.
However, intensifying the production of current agricultural land also comes with potential environmental downsides, the report said.
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