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Geopolitics, Trade Shocks, and Resilience
This thread explores how geopolitical volatility and evolving trade landscapes are redefining Canadian agri-food strategy, linking market access breakthroughs and input security crises to the advocacy, innovation, and cultural shifts required to secure sector sovereignty.
What this thread connects
This thematic path brings together conversations, durable analysis, and time-sensitive intelligence so the subject can be followed across the Future Herd archive rather than through a single episode or article.
Start with this conversation
Episode 11: Making Innovation Real: Bridging the Gap Between Research and the Farm
Jesse Hirsh speaks with Todd Ormann of Olds College about why so many promising agricultural technologies struggle to reach the farm, and what it actually takes to close that gap — from applied research and Smart Farms to workforce development and Canada's fragmented innovation system.
Episodes in this thread
- Episode 11: Making Innovation Real: Bridging the Gap Between Research and the Farm
- Episode 16: Manitoba's Agricultural Advocacy in a Time of Constant Shift
- 27: Applied Ecology as a Leadership Philosophy for a Changing Food System
- 28: The Politics of Standing Up for Farmers with John Barlow
- 29: Throwing Out the Business Textbook to Save the Family Farm
Related knowledge and analysis
- Beyond Recruitment: Agriculture's Leadership Renewal Depends on Cultural Transformation
- Advocacy in Flux: Representing Agricultural Producers amid Systemic Transformation
- Prince Edward Island's Agricultural Sector Punches Well Above Its Weight in the National Economy
- Canada's Agricultural Potential Is Being Held Back by Regulatory Distance and Political Neglect
- Ontario's Aquaculture Industry Is Feeding the World From Freshwater Farms Most Canadians Have Never Seen