Conversations With Canadians

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois: Food Security, Food Prices, Quebec, and Poutine

April 29, 2021 Mike Ryan Episode 17
Conversations With Canadians
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois: Food Security, Food Prices, Quebec, and Poutine
Show Notes

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University. He is as well the former Dean of the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph’s Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded. While at the University of Guelph, he was also the Associate Dean of Research for the College of Business and Economics.

 Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. He is one of the world’s most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability.

He has authored five books on global food systems, his most recent one published in 2017 by Wiley-Blackwell entitled “Food Safety, Risk Intelligence and Benchmarking”. He has a 6th book on poutine.  He has also published over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles in several academic publications. He also hosts a podcast.

On this episode we chat about the origins of Poutine, his opposition to Quebec separatism, Food Security, and the impact of COVID-19 on food prices. 

 Dr. Charlebois Twitter @FoodProfessor

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