Carney stellt neue Strategie zur Ernährungssicherheit vor | CBC-Nachrichten
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/food-security-strategy-9.7231361
Carney stellt neue Strategie zur Ernährungssicherheit vor | CBC-Nachrichten
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/food-security-strategy-9.7231361
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It’ll be interesting to see how he strengthens food production and security after making sweeping cuts to Agrifood Canada and the CFIA. You’d think any smart leader would know that these things go hand in hand, especially after making it a large part of his speech in Davos.
I assume it will be some form of throwing money at consultants for a couple years before throwing their hands up and saying we don’t know the answer lets just give them another rebate.
(In all seriousness the outlined plan in this article is basically just throw money at things and hope it solves the problem
„A senior government official shared with CBC News that Thursday’s strategy will include new investments to make grocery retailing more competitive: new money specifically in support of independent grocer supply chains.
Funding for the federal Competition Bureau has also increased this year, in an attempt to more closely monitor and enforce competition in food retailing and across its supply chains.
The initial announcement in January set aside $20 million for a local food infrastructure fund to help food banks and other organizations connect households in need with nutritious food.“)
Wouldn’t want to harm Galen Weston’s income. So lets build a special support system so people can eat. Then later maybe we can let the private sector help out. That always works out well. Or we can cancel the whole thing to fight the deficit, a more noble cause.
The problem with a lot of food security/self-sufficency policies is that the end up backsliding into protectionism and thus inadvertently harm food security and reduce domestic food supply instead of increasing it. To clarify, I’m not saying that’s what the government is planning to do, but it is a slippery slope with self sufficiency policies that needs to be addressed. There’s many examples of countries attempts at increasing domestic self sufficiency causing more problems than the solve etc.
If the government wants to increase food security, a quick and very easy to implement policy would be phasing out our biofuel mandates and subsides, especially for ethanol. In Canada the U.S & the EU, around 20-40% of all corn produced goes to ethanol because of these mandates subsidies as well as contributing to inflated global and domestic food prices etc. Phasing them out would increase overall food supply and generally be better for consumers, the economy, the environment and the global poor etc.
So, this isn’t viable as short-term relief, but looking a few decades forward we should be pumping money into vertical farming. It requires copious amounts of cheap energy to be viable but you can multiply the effective acreage significantly. Consider also that with simulated environmental conditions and appropriate soil enrichment you can grow all year round, and the effective acreage multiplies again. It’s a controlled environment which can be more or less up kept by automated systems, and the jobs that support it would be relatively high quality (crop scientist supervision and technicians for maintenance of the caretaker systems). Build the farming towers near/in cities and you cut out most of the transportation cost for produce.
It’s not going to get us out of the current bind, but it’s an aspirational goal to bring food prices waaaaay down once we’ve rolled out proper electrification.