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Canada’s agri-food sector needs to accelerate adoption of innovative technologies

Mark Lowey
June 19, 2024

Canada’s agri-food sector must step up its use of advanced technologies to achieve the expected 68-per-cent increase in global food production needed by 2050, experts told Alberta Innovates’ Inventures.

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Organizations:	Alberta Innovates, Camirlaney Farms, Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, Emissions Reduction Alberta, Government of British Columbia, Government of New Brunswick, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, McCain Foods, McKenna Institute at University of New Brunswick, Protein Industries Canada, Provision Analytics, Reazent, ResearchNB, Sandhar Farms, Solartility, Texas A&M University, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, UCalgary’s School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, University of New Brunswick, University of Saskatchewan, Van Eekelen Enterprises Ltd., and W.A. Ranches
People:	Erik Westblom, Jon Bichel, Kiju Lee, and Sumit Verma
Topics:	"small data" vs. "big data" in agri-food sector, "swarm robots" in agriculture, adoption rates of robots by farmers, agri-voltaics research facility, agricultural technology providers, Alberta Innovates' Inventure event, autonomous combine harvesting machines, B.C.'s On-Farm Technology Adoption Program, barriers to farmers adopting robots, bio-based products in agriculture, biotechnology in agriculture and agri-foods sectors, Canada's pulse crops, chair in digital agriculture at the University of New Brunswick, creating data co-operatives for farmers, creating more value-add to commodity crops, developing new food ingredients and products, digitization of crop, livestock and food production data, distributed and renewable energy, food security and safety, fruit-picking platform, incentives to encourage organic agriculture, needed increase in global food production by 2050, organic vs. conventional agriculture, remote sensing technology in farming, robot milkers in diary industry, robots for harvesting, robots in agricultural industry, role of government and academia in encouraging technology adoption in agriculture, Simpson Centre for the Alberta Digitalization Agriculture Program, smart farming, solar-generated electricity and energy storage, technology adoption in Canada's agri-food sector, traceability of crops and agri-food products, transformation of Canada's farms, use of AI and machine learning in Canada's agri-food sector, use of ammonia fertilizer and GHG emissions, and using microbes to fix nitrogen in crop plants

Canada’s agri-food sector needs to accelerate adoption of innovative technologies

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