Where do Canada’s fruits and vegetables come from? New website maps the flow into provinces
Like Google maps for your dinner plate, a new UBC project shows where 34 popular fruits and vegetables regularly consumed by Canadians come from.
By Sachi Wickramasinghe
UBC News
Jan 30, 2025
Excerpt:
The interactive website maps, for the first time, the flow of 34 popular fruits and vegetables into and across Canadian provinces over 13 years, revealing in unprecedented detail how interconnected international and inter-provincial food systems are.
“Many fruits and vegetables are harder to grow in the colder Canadian climate. On average, about 50 per cent of vegetables besides potatoes, and 75 per cent of fruits eaten in Canada, are imported,” said Dr. Kushank Bajaj, a former UBC postdoctoral research fellow who created the tool. “Those are significant numbers. We hope Canada Food Flows can help Canadians understand where their produce comes from, and spark conversations about how things like climate change and trade policy could impact supply in the future.”
To create the dataset that powers Canada Food Flows, Bajaj combined data on production, imports and exports to estimate how 18 fruits and 16 vegetables were consumed and shared between 2010 and 2022.
The result is an interactive map showing how produce flows from U.S. states—which supply 36 per cent and 67 per cent of Canada’s total fruit and vegetable imports, respectively—and 149 other countries, as well as between Canadian provinces. The tool does not currently include data for Canada’s territories due to data limitations.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/where-do-canadas-fruits-and-vegetables-come-from-new-website-maps-the-flow-into-provinces/
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