Ontario’s agri-food sector sets sights on future with Agri-Food 2050 initiative

Ontario’s agri-food sector will come together this fall for the first-ever Agri‑Food 2050, a one-day industry event dedicated to envisioning the future of food and farming. Hosted by the Agricultural Adaptation Council (AAC), the event will take place Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at the Brock Hotel in Niagara Falls.

The Agri‑Food 2050 event is the next step in the AAC’s broader Agri‑Food 2050 Initiative—a multi-year effort to identify and act on long-term priorities for Ontario’s agri‑food sector. With the year 2050 as a focal point, the initiative explores the big-picture trends shaping the industry’s future: land use pressures, climate change, evolving technologies, labour and demographic shifts and more.

“Ontario’s agriculture and agri-food stakeholders have unique insights and talents to help society collectively respond to disruption and create a future for our next generation,” says AAC board member Ruth Knight, chair of the Agri-Food 2050 Committee. “The Agri-Food 2050 initiative is an invitation to all members of our industry to come together proactively and help create a vision of what we’d like that future of our sector to be.”