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 鈥� right across the food life cycle. AAL research does this by improving the agri-food industry鈥檚 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 鈥榬egression鈥�).
Recent research
- Canadian Food Sentiment Index
- Food Safety
- Breakfast survey
- GLP1 Survey
- Grocery Discounts
- Farmers Trust Survey
- Nova Scotia Local
- End of year survey 2023
- Xmas dinner alternatives
- Restaurants 2023
- Blue Economy
- Inflation impacts nutrition
- 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 qu茅b茅cois co没te鈥憈鈥慽l 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听
- Food Price Inflation
- Report on Produce
- Restaurant Tipping
- Perceptions of Canadian Consumers: Cannabis & Edibles 鈥� 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鈥�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鈥�19 Grocery Experience
- Canada's Food Price Report 鈥� 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听
- Food Guide offers a more affordable plate, better food security听
- Dal study finds 6.4 m Canadians limiting meat in diet - number growing