The agri-food industry in Atlantic Canada

He has been a regular contributor to The State of the Regions, a series of annual reports on the development of the economic regions that make up the Maritime provinces, and his articles have appeared in national and international journals. [...] My thanks go as well to David Cook and members of the Atlantic Agriculture Coordinating Committee for having invited me to present the broad outline of this research, and to the sectoral groups and associations for the welcome they extended to me at the annual meetings of their members in each province. [...] Among the material we refer to are data from Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade contained in the electronic information network STRATEGIS, the data and analyses produced by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Statistics Canada (Agriculture Division, census, and the Annual Survey of Manufactures), and the data and studies produced by provincial ministries of agriculture [...] Is it due to the absence of a critical mass, the result of both the segmentation of the industry at the regional level and the relatively small size of the Atlantic provinces? [...] Next, we will take stock of the main trends that are helping to shape the agricultural and agri-food world and, even here in the Atlantic provinces, to dictate the conduct of businesses which must meet the expectations and needs of the various levels of the industry.