As climate change disrupts farming and threatens food security, Canadian agriculture-technology companies are finding innovative ways to help with adaptation.
“This story gets worse as you go further off the highway,” Mr. Feagin adds. He combined his experience as a research scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy with Mr. Velez’s agricultural roots to build a vertical farm, promising increased access and a 25-per-cent price reduction of fresh produce for Indigenous communities in the far North.
Retrofitting resilience Vancouver-based Verdi is applying the same high-tech approach to traditional farming, designing automation tools for climate-smart agriculture. Mr. Feagin says the ultimate goal is to create a net-zero, independent, year-round growing facility. “That is the holy grail for rural and remote community food sovereignty … especially being Indigenous owned.”