First event of the ‘Providing solutions to global challenges’ conference series.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a need to increase local food production in Quebec and Canada, and ensure all citizens have access to safe, healthy food.
Through interviews, conversations, and panel discussions, participants discussed what a roadmap to achieving greater food security and autonomy in Quebec and Canada should look like.
Our schedule & speakers
Suzanne Fortier
Principal and Vice-Chancellor,
McGill University
Anja Geitmann
Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
McGill University
Panel: Public Policies for Increased Food Security and Autonomy
Chantal Line Carpentier
Chief of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD), New York Office
Krzysztof Pelc
Associate Professor, Political Science,
McGill University
Panel : The Role of Higher Education
Marcel Groleau
President,
Union des Producteurs agricoles du Québec (UPA)
Darlene McBain
Industry Relations Manager,
Farm Credit Canada
Interview with Quebec’s Minister of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food
André Lamontagne
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food,
Minister Responsible for the Centre-du-Québec Region,
Government of Quebec
MC for the event
Alex Johnston, LLB/BCL’99
CEO of 360 Concussion Care,
Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees for the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
Video reflections from
Mark Lefsrud
Associate Professor,
Department of Bioresource Engineering,
McGill University
The Honourable Liza Frulla
General Director,
Institut de tourisme et d’hôtellerie du Québec (ITHQ)
Lauren Rathmell, BSc’10
Greenhouse Director, Founding Member,
Lufa Farms
Brittany Wenniserí:iostha Jock
Assistant Professor,
Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition & Environment (CINE),
McGill University
