Canadian Agri-Food Foresight Institute

An institute distinctively designed to both broaden and deepen food knowledge.

What is the purpose of Canadian Agri-Food Foresight Institute?

The institute helps farmers, consumers, NGOs, the hospitality industry, the broader community, students, and the food industry to explore, learn, innovate, commercialize, and make positive change to improve food quality, security, sustainability, appreciation, and healthfulness.

About

CAFI

Devoted to tackling canadian’s food issues along the entire agriculture and food continuum, Canadian Agri-Food Foresight Institute is looking forward to better understand the future of food.

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Study

publications

With the help of the prospective method, the institute evaluates and analyzes current agri-food systems to understand the future of agri-food systems. CAFI releases 4 to 6 studies on specific food issues, yearly.

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Consultation

services

The Institute offers its consultation services to a wide variety of industry and government-mandated projects to help strengthening their strategy at every step of the food life cycle – production, storage, distribution and retail.

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Our most recent studies

We strive to enlighten people regarding the most current food trends in every area of the food chain. Here are our most recent publications.

We would be better off with more women agrifood entrepreneurs (The Chronicle Herald)

18 October 2019

By managing risks differently, women entrepreneurs bring needed diversity of thought in the [...]

Cannabis 2.0: What can we expect? (Global News)

17 October 2019

Chat with Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie, [...]

In red meat vs plant protein wars, science is not a buffet where you pick and choose the results you like (Financial Post)

8 October 2019

There is no right or wrong in food research, even if the steamrolling plant-based narrative has [...]

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