I guess there's this theory out there that as soon as you use GMO you have to use more pesticides, but there's also the other side of it, which is that you need to use less water. As you know, climate change means that we have longer, drier periods. You either have to use less water, or your crop requires less sun to grow. If we have wet periods, it can be beneficial, or if we have dry periods.... Where I'm from this seems to be the case. Last year we had a dry period; this year we have a wet period. It seems to play a role. I've spoken to some of the farmers. I've spoken to industry, obviously. GMO alone is not going to solve it, but once you include precision farming, once you include.... Fertilizer also plays a big role. I know Bill Gates believes that fertilizer will play a big role in ensuring that food production is available.
I agree with you that food production alone is not going to solve the issue. In Canada, 50% of our food waste is done at home, so whether we produce more food or not, we're not going to solve the issue.
Christina, in terms of the roles that the fairs could play, we can legislate anything we want to stop food waste at home, but it would be unenforceable and so unpractical from our side. How do we teach society and how do we give them the right tools to reduce food waste at home? How could we use the fairs to do that? CNE is almost in downtown Toronto now, and that's the population we need to target because they don't know where food comes from anymore.