While the competitiveness of the Canadian agri-food sector attracted significant research attention since the mid 1980s, no study has measured competitiveness using longitudinal data and determined empirically the drivers of competitiveness. This article contributes to the competitiveness...

The Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) proposed for developing countries has become athorny issue in the Doha Development Agenda’s (DDA) agricultural negotiations. Proponents ofthe mechanism argue that it is a necessary compromise to counter sharp price declines or rapidimport surges in staple...

In 2011, the Canadian Agrifood Policy Institute released an report highlighting the importance of the agrifood sector to the economy and concluded by stating the need for Canada to double the dollar value of agrifood exports to ensure the viability of the system. This paper seeks to estimate...