{"id":1345,"date":"2022-10-20T15:47:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/tl\/the-next-green-revolution-project\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:14:02","slug":"the-next-green-revolution-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/agriculture\/the-next-green-revolution-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Green Revolution Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div\n\tid=\"tl-fpb-1\"\n\tstyle=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/06\/DL-Next-Green-Revolution-Hub_Banner-wide-scaled-1.jpg?quality=80&amp;w=4096);background-position:50% 50%;background-size:cover;min-height:500px\" class=\"tl-featured-post-banner wp-block-rbc-thought-leadership-blocks-featured-post-banner\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"tl-featured-post-banner__gradient\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;z-index:0;pointer-events:none;\"><\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"tl-featured-post-banner__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\tclass=\"tl-pill tl-pill--banner\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/agriculture\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\tAgriculture\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"tl-featured-post-banner__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"tl-featured-post-banner__title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/agriculture\/the-next-green-revolution-project\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Next Green Revolution Project\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"tl-featured-post-banner__excerpt\">\n\t\t\t\tBy 2050, we must increase our food production by a quarter just to maintain our contribution as the world\u2019s population swells.\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"section-inner pad-b-0\">\n<div class=\"grid-wpr\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-thirds\">\n<h2 class=\"pad-b-0\" style=\"font-weight: 500\">Food is again at the forefront<\/h2>\nIt\u2019s reshaping the economy, as food prices take inflation higher. It\u2019s redefining national security, as countries reckon with the prospect of strategic supplies. And it\u2019s resetting the climate conversation, as producers and consumers grapple with the need for more food with fewer emissions.\n\nThe world needs a new Green Revolution, and Canada can play a leading role. Indeed, we must.\n\nBy 2050, we must increase our food production by a quarter just to maintain our contribution as the world\u2019s population swells. We need to grow more for humanity, with less impact on the planet. This can be Canada\u2019s moonshot for 2030 and beyond, if we can harness the imagination and enterprise of Canadians in every sector and geography.\n\n<button class=\"collapse-toggle collapsed\" data-target=\"#readMore\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"readMore\">Read More<\/button>\n<div id=\"readMore\" class=\"collapse-content collapse\" aria-expanded=\"true\">\n<div class=\"collapse-inner\">\n\nThe coming age of disruption, in agriculture and food systems, compelled RBC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcg.com\/en-ca\/about\/centre-canadas-future\/default\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BCG Centre for Canada\u2019s Future<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arrellfoodinstitute.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arrell Food Institute<\/a> at the University of Guelph to take on this project to help inform and inspire Canadians to see both the urgent need and growing opportunity that will come with more sustainable food systems.\n\nIn our report series, we outline how we can build those systems by:\n<ul class=\"disc pad-l\">\n \t<li>Using breakthrough technologies as well as some well-established practices,<\/li>\n \t<li>Attracting and training a new generation of farm and food innovators,<\/li>\n \t<li>Investing in farmers to develop new economic incentives that reward what they produce as well as what they preserve,<\/li>\n \t<li>Creating a national policy framework to unite all key constituents, align our emissions measurement and reduction goals, and integrate with industries that intersect with agriculture,<\/li>\n \t<li>And boldly declaring to the world that Canadian agriculture can help everyone move more quickly to a world that has solved the climate crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHow we grow, process and consume food is not the key cause of our climate crisis. It can be a key solution. And with the right investments, it can become a made-in-Canada, farmed-in-Canada solution for the world.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-one-third\">\n<h5>Our Project Partners<\/h5>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcg.com\/en-ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/BCG_mainlogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"57\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52507\" \/><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arrellfoodinstitute.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/agl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[inpage-tabs]\n<div class=\"section-inner agriculture-video\" style=\"justify-content: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sHcPTIQ9mRE?controls=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"section-inner centered\">\n<div class=\"grid-wpr eh-wpr\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-thirds\">\n<h2 class=\"pad-b-0\" style=\"font-weight: 500\">The Growing Challenge: a <em>Disruptors<\/em> podcast series<\/h2>\nThe Growing Challenge is a special, three-part series on Disruptors, an RBC podcast, which tackles a critical question for the 2020s: how can Canada help feed the world\u2019s growing population, while simultaneously slashing our carbon emissions to meet our nation\u2019s Net Zero goals?\n\nDisruptors hosts John Stackhouse and Trinh Theresa Do visited farms and production facilities across the country, and spoke with an array of experts working up and down the food supply chain, including farmers, academics, scientists, and restaurateurs.\n\nWe\u2019ll take you from the field, to the processing facility, to the dinner table, to learn how we can harness new technologies and processes to improve efficiency, cut emissions, and reduce food waste. Solving this challenge could be Canada\u2019s moonshot\u2014and a defining moment for our country.\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-one-third\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"disruptor-img\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Disruptors-Button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtleadership.rbc.com\/the-growing-challenge-how-canada-can-lead-the-next-green-revolution-in-agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"btn tertiary pad-tb-hlf pad-lr mar-r-hlf mar-b-0\" style=\"text-align: left;width: 100%\" data-target=\"#prec\">Part 1: How Canada can lead the next green revolution in agriculture <\/button><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtleadership.rbc.com\/the-growing-challenge-part-2-beef-biogas-dairy-and-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"btn tertiary pad-tb-hlf pad-lr mar-r-hlf mar-b-0 mar-t-qtr\" style=\"text-align: left;width: 100%\" data-target=\"#carbon\">Part 2: Beef biogas dairy and data<\/button><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtleadership.rbc.com\/the-growing-challenge-part-3-the-hidden-threat-of-food-spoilage-and-waste\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button class=\"btn tertiary pad-tb-hlf pad-lr mar-r-hlf mar-b-0 mar-t-qtr\" style=\"text-align: left;width: 100%\" data-target=\"#ana\">Part 3: The hidden threat of food spoilage and waste<\/button><\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<style class=\"advgb-styles-renderer\">@media (min-width:782px){#tl-fpb-1 .tl-featured-post-banner__gradient{background:linear-gradient(135deg, #070707, #00356300 100%);opacity:1;}}@media (max-width:781px){#tl-fpb-1{background-image:url(https:\/\/www.rbc.com\/en\/thought-leadership\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2026\/06\/DL-Next-Green-Revolution-Hub_Banner-wide-scaled-1.jpg?quality=80&w=4096)!important;background-position:50% 50%!important;background-size:cover!important;min-height:400px!important;}#tl-fpb-1 .tl-featured-post-banner__gradient{background:linear-gradient(45deg, #070707, #00356300 100%);opacity:1;}}<span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span>h1.h2 {font-weight: 500;}ul.tab-nav &gt; li {list-style-type: none;}.tab-nav li:before {content: none !important;} .callout.horizontal .callout-img {min-height: 290px;} #disruptor-img{height: 350px; width: 350px;}<\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 2050, we must increase our food production by a quarter just to maintain our contribution as the world\u2019s population swells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":2682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"disable_focal_point":true,"featured_image_focal_point":{"x":0.5,"y":0.5},"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","editor_notices":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[124,129],"tags":[],"rbc_tl_platform":[134],"rbc_tl_newsletter":[],"rbc_tl_content_type":[126],"rbc_tl_author":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-climate-action","rbc_tl_platform-climate-action-institute","rbc_tl_content_type-article"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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