Past Events

3:00-4:00pm EDT

Tia Loftsgard, Executive Director , Canada Organic Trade Association (COTA)Sébastien Houle, General Manager, Ecocert Canada

With scientists estimates of only about 60 years of topsoil remaining at current practices, the need to have organic, regenerative and fair trade practices incorporated into one standard was seen as essential by the Rodale Institute who developed the Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) program.  Attend this session which will delve into the new ROC program which was piloted in Canada by Nature’s Path Foods on Legend Organic Farms (which is associated with the company).  We will discuss the merits of the program yet also discuss consumer confusion around the term regenerative, which is being used by non-organic businesses currently.

3:30-4:30pm EDT

Tia Loftsgard, Executive Director of Canada Organic Trade Association (COTA) and Stephen Tapp, Deputy Chief Economist of Export Development Canada (EDC)

Stephen Tapp is the Deputy Chief Economist and Director of the Economic Research and Analysis Department at Export Development Canada. In these roles, he helps oversee EDC’s global economic forecast, Canadian export forecast, and sur-vey of Canadian exporters. He also briefs senior manage-ment on global trade developments and manages the longer-term economic research program that helps guide corporate strategy.

Canada’s organic market is valued at $6.6 billion, growing on average 8% annually and is the 6^th largest organic market in the world.  Organic agriculture has grown 546% since 1999 globally so how can organic keep pace with growing organic demand, in light of current global trade challenges. COTA teams up with EDC to evaluate the current opportunities, given certain trade realities in this session.

This webinar will cover topics on the research behind the health benefits being attributed to organics. This panel will be led by Marise May, Co-Founder and Vice President of Cha's Organics, bringing her expertise in nutritional sciences to the conversation.  

This webinar will cover topics on the rapidly evolving regenerative agriculture movement, and how this fits in with organic agriculture's framework. Tia Loftsgard, Executive Director of the Canada Organic Trade Association, will moderate the panel joined by  Dag Falck, Organic Program Manager with Nature's Path Foods and Elizabeth Whitlow, Executive Director of the Regenerative Organic Alliance.