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- Nationally, the total reported area is down eight per cent in the last two decades — from 68 million hectares in 2001 to 62 million in 2021.
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According to CBC’s Charles Brockman (2023), the 20-year changes to both average farm size and total number of farms indicate that “Canada can be said to have lost the equivalent of three full farms per day for 20 years.” Statistics Canada (2022) attributes these changes to industry
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Canada's cities are responsible for the majority of arable land converted to urban settlements. Reports from Statistics Canada comparing surveys from 1971 to 2011 showed an estimated 642,100 hectares of agricultural land were lost to new settlements around Canada's largest metropolitan areas. The largest conversion from arable land to settlement ha...
Along with the decline in farm area, most provinces have seen an even more rapid decline in individual farms — down 23 per cent in the 20-year period. In the same period, the size of farms increased. In 2001, the average Canadian farm was 274 hectares in size; that number reached 327 hectares in 2021. Based on the new average, Canada can be said to...
In addition to growing food, agriculture helps slow climate change by storing carbon in vegetation and soil. AAFC says 10 per cent of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions also come from crop and livestock production; as production intensifies, there is less and less farmland available to absorb the emissions. When farmland is lost to sprawl, it is unl...
Dec 13, 2022 · For the past 20 years, Newfoundland and Labrador has been shedding farmland at a rate nearly seven times the national average, according to Stats Canada data. The amount of land being farmed in...
In 2021, there were 590,710 people living on Canadian farms, including operators and their household members (StatCan Table 32-10-0392-01) Overall, from 1971 to 2021, the farm population declined by 62.2%, from 1 in 14 Canadians to 1 in 61 (StatCan 2023).
Aug 15, 2022 · Canada’s agriculture industry has been undergoing significant changes over the past 45 years. Since the 1970s, the number of farms has been steadily declining, but not all farms have been impacted equally — mid-size farms have been hit the hardest, as the number of small and large farms increases.
Jun 18, 2022 · Data from the 2021 Census of Agriculture shows Ontario is losing 319 acres of farmland daily, equal to the loss of one average family farm. That's a sharp increase from the last census in 2016,...
Oct 1, 2021 · Canada has not been immune from this global trend with three key factors generating these losses: soil degradation, population growth and urbanisation. – Each year Canada loses approximately 50,000 to 60,000 acres of farmland to urban expansion.
