From Farm to Fork: Saskatchewan’s role in the Future of Food Security and Innovation

2024 Robertson Lecture:

From Farm to Fork: Saskatchewan’s role in the Future of Food Security and Innovation

Featuring: Sylvain Charlebois, Professor, Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Dalhousie University

Join us at the 2024 Robertson Lecture featuring Sylvan Charlebois, who will discuss Saskatchewan’s role in the evolving landscape of food production and distribution. Discover how emerging consumer trends, transportation logistics, and global events are reshaping our food systems. Delve into Saskatchewan’s unique role in agri-food production, including its contributions to global food security, innovation and the urban-rural food connection. Join us to explore the dynamic interplay between food policy, safety, and economics, and consider how food producers and policy makers from municipal, provincial and federal levels of government can better understand and navigate our food supply chain.

About the speaker:

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab, at the same university. He is as well the former Dean of the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph’s Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded.

Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. He is one of the world’s most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability. Since 2020, he co-hosts The Food Professor podcast, discussing issues in the food, foodservice, grocery and restaurant industries. The podcast is ranked amongst the top most listened management podcast in Canada.

About the Robertson Lecture:

Scientific knowledge, when properly and clearly shared with policymakers and the media, can greatly improve the quality of the human experience. It is critical that the findings scientists make through rigorous discipline and proven protocols are not misinterpreted or misunderstood in order to preserve the integrity of scientific leadership, public policy, and communications work. The Robertson Lecture is named in honour and remembrance of Dr. Bev Robertson, and is made possible by a generous donation from Dr. Bev Robertson, his wife Elaine, and their family. For more information on this series, please click here: https://www.schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.c...

The 2024 lecture is part of the University of Regina’s 50th Anniversary year of celebrations.

This lecture took place in Regina and on Zoom on Wednesday, October 16, 2024.