Research

Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL) research focuses on how global trends affect food processing, distribution and retail sales for Canadian Agrifood businesses including food service.

AAL research is enabling the agri-food industry to better meet demand, and reduce costs and waste in an environmentally responsible and sustainable manner – right across the food life cycle. AAL research does this by improving the agri-food industry’s understanding of:

• consumer tastes by location
• customer experiences and services
• marketing
• supply chain and logistics
• quality and safety tracking
• price and market analysis
• optimized production, sourcing and inventory utilizing demand forecasting algorithms (such as ‘regression’).

Recent research

• Maritimes University Food Banks
• AI Report
• Plant-based Products
• Grocer Distrust
• Customer Service
• Cashless Grocery Stores
• Loblaws Report
• Greedflation 3
• Halloween 2022
• Thanksgiving 2022
• Inflation Pressures
• Greedflation
• Best Before
• Dairy & Dairy alternatives
• Privacy
• Local Food
• Manger québécois coûte‑t‑il plus cher?
• Animal vs Vegetable protein prices
• Post-pandemic household food gardening
• Coupons
• Shelflation
• 2021 End of Year Report
• Salmon Report
• Food Allergies and Intolerances 
• Food Price Inflation
• Report on Produce
• Restaurant Tipping
• Perceptions of Canadian Consumers: Cannabis & Edibles – A New Assessment
• COVID-19 Grocery Outlook
• COVID-19 Beef Consumption
• Canadian Food Manufacturing: An Overview in 2010, 2020 & Forecast to 2030
• COVID-19 Well Being
• Benchmarking Food Safety
• COVID-19, 1 Year Later
• COVID Food Literacy
• COVID‑19 Online Food Activity
• COVID-19 Food Autonomy
• Supply Management 2.0
• Home Food Gardening during COVID-19
• Household Organic Food Waste - COVID-19
• Plastic Food Packaging: Before and After COVID-19
• COVID-19 Telecommuting
• Restaraunts post COVID-19
• Farmgate Waste
• COVID‑19 Grocery Experience
• Canada's Food Price Report ‑ Revised Updates
• Grocery shopping during COVID-19 pandemic
• Food delivery apps
• Keto Dieting
• 2020 Food Resolutions
• Cannabis 2.0: What can we expect?
• New survey suggests Canadians consider food security as most important electoral issue, country divided on agrifood global trades.
• The single-use plastics dilemma: Perceptions and possible solutions
• Canadians down on legal cannabis edibles 
• Food Guide offers a more affordable plate, better food security 
• Dal study finds 6.4 m Canadians limiting meat in diet - number growing