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Now, perhaps more than ever, people are better understanding the importance of supply chains and food supply to national security.  Greenhouses offer resilient, controlled growing environments capable of producing efficient, targeted, high quality yields.  Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) has a significant and expanding role to play in the Canadian economy.  Ontario Greenhouse vegetable production alone is a billion dollar industry that has plans to grow at unprecedented rates over the next five years.  The sector is rich with innovation and development. Growers, government agencies, NGOs, and academia have each contributed to moving Canada's CEA industry forward.  While there are examples of inter-agency cooperation, no one agency exists that can act as a central hub for the research, dissemination, and knowledge translation - to put innovation into wide practice.  A prospective GREAT Institute would provide a hub for the coordination of CEA research opportunities and activities, but also the wider education of all CEA stakeholders (including the public).  Such an Institute would leverage the expertise of grower, government, NGO, and academic members to train the next generation of CEA professionals for Canadian and wider global employment.

Webinar Objectives

• Identify all CEA sector stakeholders types.

• Highlight the most pressing/strategic research, education, and training needs of the Canadian CEA Industry.

• Identify challenges/opportunities with current research, education, and training networks/architectures.

• Determine the pro's and con's of a proposed GREAT Institute.

• Discuss the value of exporting unique Canadian CEA expertise to the rest of the world.

Who Should Participate?

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