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Evan Fraser is Canada Research Chair in the Department of Geography and the Food Institute at University of Guelph.

Economic resilience starts now: solutions for a stronger future

  • We cannot repeat the pattern of offering short-term Band-Aids while expecting our most vulnerable neighbours to absorb the long-term costs of economic and climate
Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER, BRENDAN HALEY | March 4, 2025
Dominic LeBlanc
Dominic LeBlanc
Finance Minister Dominic Leblanc. The federal government has the opportunity to take steps towards building Canadians’ financial health and well-being, write Evan Fraser and Brendan Haley. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Economic resilience starts now: solutions for a stronger future

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER, BRENDAN HALEY | March 4, 2025
  • We cannot repeat the pattern of offering short-term Band-Aids while expecting our most vulnerable neighbours to absorb the long-term costs of economic and climate

Economic resilience starts now: solutions for a stronger future

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER, BRENDAN HALEY | March 4, 2025
  • We cannot repeat the pattern of offering short-term Band-Aids while expecting our most vulnerable neighbours to absorb the long-term costs of economic and climate
Dominic LeBlanc
Finance Minister Dominic Leblanc. The federal government has the opportunity to take steps towards building Canadians’ financial health and well-being, write Evan Fraser and Brendan Haley. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canada is falling behind when it could be an agri-superpower

  • We all know that global population growth and climate change are challenging the world’s leaders to find ways of protecting the food security of
Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER | June 24, 2020
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, pictured at a press conference. Canada would do well to put its agri-food system at the forefront of the post-pandemic recovery. Even before the pandemic, Ottawa's Advisory Council for Economic Growth recommended that investing in the agri-food sector was strategic.   The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canada is falling behind when it could be an agri-superpower

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER | June 24, 2020
  • We all know that global population growth and climate change are challenging the world’s leaders to find ways of protecting the food security of

Canada is falling behind when it could be an agri-superpower

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER | June 24, 2020
  • We all know that global population growth and climate change are challenging the world’s leaders to find ways of protecting the food security of
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, pictured at a press conference. Canada would do well to put its agri-food system at the forefront of the post-pandemic recovery. Even before the pandemic, Ottawa's Advisory Council for Economic Growth recommended that investing in the agri-food sector was strategic.   The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Food insecurity demands attention in a hungry, unstable world

  • The latest data from the United Nations are staggering. In 2019, 821 million people around the world were chronically under nourished, up 10 million
Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER | March 23, 2020
Events like droughts that threaten food security have been shown to be linked to conflict. In a world where these events become more common, Canada must play a leading role if war is to be averted, writes Evan Fraser. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Food insecurity demands attention in a hungry, unstable world

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER | March 23, 2020
  • The latest data from the United Nations are staggering. In 2019, 821 million people around the world were chronically under nourished, up 10 million

Food insecurity demands attention in a hungry, unstable world

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER | March 23, 2020
  • The latest data from the United Nations are staggering. In 2019, 821 million people around the world were chronically under nourished, up 10 million
Events like droughts that threaten food security have been shown to be linked to conflict. In a world where these events become more common, Canada must play a leading role if war is to be averted, writes Evan Fraser. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Canada’s agriculture system on the cusp of a circular revolution

  • The Canadian agri-food system is one of our best-kept secrets. It is one of our largest employers and is responsible for tens of billions
Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER | December 5, 2018
There’s an explosion of interest devoted to agriculture and the circular economy, providing an unprecedented opportunity to drive economic and the environmental agendas, writes Evan Fraser. The Hill Times file photograph

Canada’s agriculture system on the cusp of a circular revolution

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER | December 5, 2018
  • The Canadian agri-food system is one of our best-kept secrets. It is one of our largest employers and is responsible for tens of billions

Canada’s agriculture system on the cusp of a circular revolution

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER | December 5, 2018
  • The Canadian agri-food system is one of our best-kept secrets. It is one of our largest employers and is responsible for tens of billions
There’s an explosion of interest devoted to agriculture and the circular economy, providing an unprecedented opportunity to drive economic and the environmental agendas, writes Evan Fraser. The Hill Times file photograph

Canada needs to adopt Blockchain technology to meet ambitious agriculture and food goals

  • In February, Dominic Barton and the Advisory Committee on Economic Growth set an audacious goal for the country. To become the world’s trusted supplier
Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER | December 7, 2017
Professor Evan Fraser, Canada Research Chair on global food security and director of the Arrell Food Institute, says Canada should adopt Blockchain technology to double agri-food exports and become the world’s trusted supplier of safe sustainable food, as envisioned in a landmark report from the federal government's Advisory Committee on Economic Growth. Photograph courtesy of Ryan Cheney

Canada needs to adopt Blockchain technology to meet ambitious agriculture and food goals

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER | December 7, 2017
  • In February, Dominic Barton and the Advisory Committee on Economic Growth set an audacious goal for the country. To become the world’s trusted supplier

Canada needs to adopt Blockchain technology to meet ambitious agriculture and food goals

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER | December 7, 2017
  • In February, Dominic Barton and the Advisory Committee on Economic Growth set an audacious goal for the country. To become the world’s trusted supplier
Professor Evan Fraser, Canada Research Chair on global food security and director of the Arrell Food Institute, says Canada should adopt Blockchain technology to double agri-food exports and become the world’s trusted supplier of safe sustainable food, as envisioned in a landmark report from the federal government's Advisory Committee on Economic Growth. Photograph courtesy of Ryan Cheney

The time is now to position Canada as a global leader in Agri-Food

  • February 16 is Canada’s Agriculture Day; a day to celebrate the food we love and where it comes from, focusing not only on farmers
Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER, RORY MCALPINE | February 16, 2017
Canada must strive to become the world's second-largest exporter of agricultural products (after the United States) and double our share of world exports in processed food, the authors argue. Photograph courtesy of Gary Csoff

The time is now to position Canada as a global leader in Agri-Food

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER, RORY MCALPINE | February 16, 2017
  • February 16 is Canada’s Agriculture Day; a day to celebrate the food we love and where it comes from, focusing not only on farmers

The time is now to position Canada as a global leader in Agri-Food

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER, RORY MCALPINE | February 16, 2017
  • February 16 is Canada’s Agriculture Day; a day to celebrate the food we love and where it comes from, focusing not only on farmers
Canada must strive to become the world's second-largest exporter of agricultural products (after the United States) and double our share of world exports in processed food, the authors argue. Photograph courtesy of Gary Csoff

Is another dust bowl coming?

  • GUELPH, ONT.—In the 1930s, a bad drought and an economic malaise upended farming systems around North America causing the Dust Bowl. Could climate change
Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER, MALCOLM CAMPBELL | June 13, 2016
Buried machinery in a barn lot in Dallas, South Dakota, May 1936. Photograph courtesy of the United States Department of Agriculture

Is another dust bowl coming?

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER, MALCOLM CAMPBELL | June 13, 2016
  • GUELPH, ONT.—In the 1930s, a bad drought and an economic malaise upended farming systems around North America causing the Dust Bowl. Could climate change

Is another dust bowl coming?

Opinion | BY EVAN FRASER, MALCOLM CAMPBELL | June 13, 2016
  • GUELPH, ONT.—In the 1930s, a bad drought and an economic malaise upended farming systems around North America causing the Dust Bowl. Could climate change
Buried machinery in a barn lot in Dallas, South Dakota, May 1936. Photograph courtesy of the United States Department of Agriculture
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