Evan Fraser, the Director of Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph, addresses growing concerns surrounding the stability of international trade, and the implications it might have on our food systems.
Fraser notes that real food system resilience is established locally, rather than through large, multi-national corporate operations. Referencing the innovation of local food enterprises like Avery Family Farms of British Columbia, and a small fish processing plant in a Sierra Leone village that he visited, Fraser advocates for concentrating resources in these local enterprises to support a food system that is economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable.