In today’s society, supply chains are built for competition — competing for supplies, suppliers, and market share. But over the past decade in the agri-food space, businesses that were once fierce competitors have been standing side-by-side to overcome the sector’s biggest challenges together. Driving down emissions in the agri-food system is one of those challenges.

Host Crystal Mackay sits down with Nick Betts, Managing Director at the Canadian Alliance for Net-zero Agri-food (CANZA), and Benjamin Eastman, Senior Farm Consultant at Co-operators, to talk about collaboration and its important role in Canada achieving a net-zero agri-food system.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
01:00 Shift towards Collaboration in the food system
02:21 Ben Eastman, The Cooperators, and the role of collaboration
03:58 Nick Betts, CANZA, and the role of collaboration
04:31 Pre-competitive collaboration
05:55 Net zero food production: balancing the environmental scorecard
08:05 Capital investment and short-term business risks
10:12 Promoting collaboration and overcoming hurdles
13:15 Opportunities for farmers
16:20 Examples of where it’s working
18:20 The future of collaboration and net zero work
19:48 What we can all learn from belgian horses
21: Collective effervescence
22:20 Farmers telling their story and leading with curiosity

Links:
Video: Carbon Farming 101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRY8hujkNMM&t=72s
Canadian Alliance for Net-zero Agri-food - https://canza.ca/
Video: Carbon Farming 101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRY8hujkNMM&t=72s
The Co-operators - https://www.cooperators.ca/en/insurance/farm
Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef - https://crsb.ca/
Collective effervescence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_effervescence

Credits:

Host: Crystal Mackay https://ca.linkedin.com/in/crystal-mackay-683b26a

Producers: Meredith Martin https://twitter.com/meredithmartin and
Cara Stern https://twitter.com/carastern

Production coordinator: Rebecca Babcock https://ca.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-babcock

Music: Dustin Stern http://dustinspace.com

The Ag Podcast is produced by Generate Canada https://generatecanada.ca/ with support from Co-operators https://www.cooperators.ca/en/insurance/farm and the Smart Prosperity Institute https://institute.smartprosperity.ca/

Questions or comments? Reach out to us at [email protected]

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