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Abstract

Climate change is affecting the agricultural sector of countries all around the world. Canada, a developed and resource rich country, is unfortunately no exception to the environmental effects warming temperatures create. The purpose of this dissertation was to ask what the impact of climate change will be in the agricultural and agri-food sector of Canada post 2030, with a direct focus on four popular commodities; wheat, seafood, maize, and soybean. The method for this dissertation was to consult existing research that focused on the same commodities but in different countries. The articles chosen often executed a type of simulation in efforts to predict how climate change will affect the respective commodities post 2030. The results of these studies were then used in efforts to make the most confident prediction possible of how Canada’s agricultural sector will be affected by climate change in the future. Canada’s agricultural sector is expected to experience relocation of production, increased pesticide use, an overall decrease in quality of commodities, as well as a decrease in quantity. Canada’s increasing temperatures are expected to be responsible for these four effects on Canada's agricultural sector. Further analysis is ongoing, however findings of this study in addition to existing work suggest that Canada’s agriculture sector is experiencing extremely negative effects as climate change continues at its current alarming rate.

Course: International Development Studies (DL) - MSC - P2517PTD

Date Deposited: 2024-02-07

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