Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) would like to share the Request for Proposal (RFP) entitled “Measuring Environmental Externalities in Canadian Agriculture” with interested researchers.
The main objective of this project is the measurement of externalities – positive and negative – associated with agricultural production in Canada, and a comparison with other countries (wherever a comparable analysis exists, e.g. the Netherlands, the US, the UK). Project will include the following elements:
- Develop a methodology to measure important environmental externalities that could be applied across Canada.
- Identify, categorize, quantify and monetize the externalities, both positive and negative, arising from agricultural production; e.g., GHG emissions, water pollution, air quality, biodiversity, agricultural landscapes, carbon sequestration.
- Apply the methodology to (i) prairie agriculture, and to (ii) agriculture in central Canada (Ontario and Quebec) by using existing data.
- Present results in 4 separate reports:
- Methodology and data
- Externalities in prairie agriculture
- Externalities in Central Canadian agriculture
- International comparisons
Budget: This is a fixed price, $75,000 contract.
Team: CAPI encourages applications from teams with good regional representation.
Proposals should not exceed 4 pages and should include, as an attachment, short bios of the team members.
Please send your proposal by the cob on July 13, 2018 to Tülay Yildirim, Director of Policy Research, CAPI at yildirimt@capi-icpa.ca
Any inquiries on this project can be addressed to Dr. Tülay Yildirim, Director of Policy Research Partnerships; she can be reached at yildirimt@capi-icpa.ca or 613-759-1025.