Ryan Turnbull at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On May 9th, 2022. See this statement in context.

May 9th, 2022 / noon

Liberal

Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks to all the panellists for being here today. It's great to have so many esteemed experts in the room, and on a topic that's so important, so thank you for all your research and for being here today.

I want to start with a quote from a report I have been reading on “Sustainable Diets and Biodiversity”, which was produced by the FAO.

On page 34, it says “appropriate agro-ecological food production systems can perform better (around 180%) than agro-industrial ones”.

Mr. Saindon, maybe I will start with you. Have you been seeing across all your research that farmers can actually get higher yields by practising agro-ecological methods?

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