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The province’s so-called “concierge” program will help connect these businesses to investment capital, navigate government funding programs, and find land including protected agricultural land. “The pandemic has reinforced the importance of food security and the role of the B.C. agricultural sector,” said B.C. s Jobs, Economic Recovery, and Innovation Minister Ravi Kahlon. “The food system was feeling extreme pressure, and for us as a government, we want to ensure we’re pandemic-proof (and) able to produce the food we need to shorten the supply chain, so we don’t need to feel that pressure again.” The recent announcement follows a controversial January 2020 report written by a provincial food security task force that argued B.C.’s future food security lies in agritech. Food advocates and academics in the province were unconvinced: By March 2020, they had issued a rebuttal noting social, economic, and sustainability issues with the approach.

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