Ten Percent Organic within 15 Years: Policy and Program Initiatives to Advance Organic Food and Farming in Ontario, Canada

The Canadian food and agriculture sector is facing some significant environmental, food safety, and financial difficulties. These difficulties are affecting the market’s perceptions of Canadian food, both domestically and internationally. These realities explain, in part, the development of the 2002 agricultural policy framework (APF), implemented in 2003-2008 by the federal, provincial, and territorial governments, and the agreement to create a next generation of APF programs (or APF2).