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Agri‐Food Strategy — Rationale and Themes
Author(s) -
Migie Howard
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
canadian journal of agricultural economics/revue canadienne d'agroeconomie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1744-7976
pISSN - 0008-3976
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7976.1982.tb01970.x
Subject(s) - liberian dollar , production (economics) , value (mathematics) , agriculture , food processing , economics , food security , food systems , business , agricultural economics , marketing , political science , microeconomics , geography , computer science , finance , archaeology , machine learning , law
Challenge for Growth: An Agri‐Food Strategy for Canada was announced by the Honourable Eugene Whelan on July 17, 1981. The main rationale behind the strategy is that there is a bright long‐term future for the agri‐food sector provided certain constraints to increased production and improved marketing can be overcome. The strategy looks at the next twenty years and identifies constraints to achieving the full potential of the agri‐food system, along with possible solutions to overcoming those roadblocks. The potential for Canada's agri‐food sector, given a certain expectation for world agri‐food prices, would permit an increase of two‐thirds in output by the turn of the century with a doubling of the 1980 current dollar value of agricultural production.