International Trade Diversification Opportunities for Canada’s Agri-Food Sector: Lessons from New Zealand

The Canadian economy is built on decades-worth of industrial activity and its links to the natural endowment of the country. For an extended period of time, Canadians have looked to our natural resources for wealth creation, value-added processing, and international market opportunities. On the other end, recent studies and experts have demonstrated concern and warnings against the environmental concerns linked to over-harvesting and over-exploiting Canadian natural resources.

As the Canadian economy continues to rely on natural resource extraction and value-added processes, new markets are emerging outside of the United States of America. For Canada, markets like China are becoming more important as demand continues to soar from Chinese middle-class consumers and an appetite for better and more sustainable foods from Canada.

The research internship, which will take place in collaboration with Dalhousie University’s School for Resource and Environmental Studies and Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s School of Environmental Science and Engineering, will look at the current state of international trading from Canada to China for the agri-food sector, in addition to the future outlook of the Canadian single-use plastic packaging dilemma derived from food products.

Faculty Supervisor:

Michelle Adams

Student:

Partner:

Massey University

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Environmental Science and Technology; Natural Resources

University:

Dalhousie University

Program: