NFU Reports

Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF): A Critical Analysis, with a Focus on Agriculture, Land, and Food

Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) pose significant risks to food security, biodiversity, and climate goals while failing to address aviation's true emissions challenge. The report highlights the trade-offs and planetary limits ignored by the SAF megaproject.

Tried and True: The Case for Reinstituting Efficacy Testing for Non-Fertilizer Supplements

Reinstating efficacy testing for non-fertilizer supplements in Canada will enhance agricultural sustainability, support soil health, and provide farmers with scientifically validated, cost-effective solutions.

Canadian Agriculture by the Numbers

A brief summary and analysis of important statistics pertaining to Canadian agriculture – including farmland area, value, population, and finance – and how they have changed in the past 20 years.

Farm Workers Know Your Rights Zine

Farm workers help to produce the food that keeps us all fed. Unfortunately, farm workers in Ontario are excluded from essential worker protections like minimum wage, mandatory rest periods, and

Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Atlantic Provinces: A Comprehensive Assessment

This report presents a single detailed picture of nearly all sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agricultural production and production of associated farm inputs for the four Atlantic provinces:

Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Ontario: A Comprehensive Assessment

This report presents a single detailed picture of nearly all sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Ontario agricultural production and production of associated farm inputs. Ontario has the most

Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Saskatchewan: A Comprehensive Assessment

Saskatchewan is central to Canadian agriculture, with roughly 40% of Canadian cropland, 20% of the Canadian cattle herd, and 20% of gross farm income. Saskatchewan also makes up roughly 30%

Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada: Third Edition

The most detailed report of its kind, Agriculture Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada: A Comprehensive Analysis (3rd Edition) subdivides Canadian agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and soil-carbon changes into 42

18 Reasons Why Agricultural Soil Carbon Offsets are the Wrong Approach to the Climate Crisis, and What We Should Do Instead

In this bold and blunt 17-page report the National Farmers Union (NFU) in 18 concise points, we expose the false solutions— that offset protocols, offset projects, and emissions trading are ineffectual, illegitimate, and damaging. The NFU urges the Canadian government to shelve plans for soil-based offset protocols. With sound research, the NFU provides the clear reasoning as to why offsets are ineffective. This then informs the ten policy recommendations that could address the climate crisis while simultaneously providing real, meaningful change for farms and farmers. 

Canadian Agriculture: The Challenge of Achieving Authentic Sustainability

How provincial rules help or hinder regional meat production

On December 12, 2022, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, announced the beginning of a process to create a Sustainable Agriculture Strategy (SAS). Agriculture and Agri-Food

Guidance to providing your input to AAFC’s Sustainable Agriculture Strategy

The NFU has created a guideline for how you might want to respond to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) questionnaire towards developing a 25-year Sustainable Agriculture Strategy. Use this as

Sustainable Agriculture Strategy—8 Things You Need to Know

The federal government and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) have initiated a process to develop a 25-year Sustainable Agriculture Strategy (SAS).  The NFU is one of 21 organizations on the