From a CANZA perspective, we do very much see strong alignment between the agriculture sector and national defence. If we're feeding ourselves, then we absorb shocks much better as the global volatility continues.
The space that CANZA's working in is convening strong partners who work at the grassroots from a technological perspective, all the way up to business risk management programs, which are an essential tool to helping farmers mitigate volatility.
At the end of the day, I very much agree with our friends at Équiterre in terms of everything starting with the soil. If the soil is reinforced and invested in, it's going to continue to give, grow and increase domestic production.
The investments that we're looking to make through some of the programming and some of the data collection make it easier to tell that story, to say that farmers are building resilience on farm, that they're mitigating their own risks in an upstream manner.
