The food industry is embracing sustainability. What does it mean? Ann Hui National Food Reporter Published June 13, 2022 Keith Currie, who runs a 300-acre grain and oilseed farm in Collingwood, Ont., has long grown used to being told that farmers need to focus on sustainability. In response, he always asks: “Tell me what that means to you.” The answers, he says, are always somewhat different. There is no consensus on a definition for sustainability, even among farmers, let alone unanimity across the entire food system. In the urgent race to combat climate change, it’s a challenge that food-system experts say is imperative to overcome. In order to move onto the pressing work of tracking and implementing sustainability across the food chain, there must be agreement on a definition.

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