How much value does pork research really deliver - and why does it matter now more than ever?
Join us for a timely webinar featuring Stuart J. Smyth, Peter W.B. Phillips, and David Castle, the authors of SIP’s latest Impact Assessment, as they explore the measurable economic, innovation, and sector-wide impacts of pork research investments in Canada. This session will unpack how research has supported productivity, competitiveness, and long-term resilience across the pork value chain—and what the findings mean for producers, industry leaders, and policymakers looking ahead.
If you’re interested in understanding how research investments translate into real-world outcomes for the pork sector, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.
French translation will be available.
Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YWRzFEKWT0G-LCXz7q9u0w#/registration
Speakers
Stuart J. Smyth
Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics·University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Stuart Smyth is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. His research focuses on sustainability, agriculture, innovation and food. Dr. Smyth publishes twice weekly blogs on these topics at: www.SAIFood.ca. With over 160 academic publications, Dr. Smyth is recognized as a leading expert on barriers to innovation and regulatory efficiency. Dr. Smyth specializes in research on regulatory barriers to food security, especially those that restrict investments into new plant breeding technologies, such as genome editing and that delay, or prevent, the commercialization of genetically modified and genome-edited crops. Since 2019, he has been leading a large research project that quantifies the sustainability changes of Prairie crop production.
Peter WB Phillips (he/him)
PhD, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy·University of Saskatchewan
Phillips earned his PhD at the LSE, worked for 13 years as an economist in industry and government and retired in 2023 after 26 years in a series of professorial appointments in agricultural economics, business, political studies and public policy at USask. He developed and held a SSHRC-NSERC Chair in Managing Technological Change, was a founder and director of the virtual College of Biotechnology and was founding director of Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at USask. His teaching and research focuses on agri-food innovation policy and strategy. He has held visiting appointments at the LSE, EUI, OECD, Chatham House and Universities of Edinburgh, Western Australia, and UTS Sydney and served as an expert advisor for firms and governments around the world. He has won major peer-reviewed grants worth $250M and is author/editor of 22 books, 100 articles and 75 chapters.
He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Genome Prairie and Chairs the Clean Growth Panel with the Canadian Climate Institute. He previously served as Chair of Ag-West Bio, as a member of the CCA Expert Panel on Managing Plant Health Risks, on the NAFTA Chapter 13 Panel on GM Corn in Mexico, on the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee and as an expert on several civil litigations.
Dr. David Castle
Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy in the School of Public Administration·University of Victoria
Dr. David Castle is a Professor of science, technology and innovation policy in the School of Public Administration, University of Victoria. His research focuses socio-economic aspects of biodiversity, especially natural capital accounting and access and benefits sharing of genetic resources. He is a Researcher in Residence at the Office of the Chief Science Advisor, Canada where he advises on science policy, open science, research security, major research infrastructure, and biodiversity. He chairs the Scientific Committee of the International Science Council’s World Data System (WDS)