What shapes our thinking and direction? Population growth: 9 billion - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• Population growth: 9 billion by 2050
• Productivity growth: more with less

– 70% increase in production by 2050

• Technology needs: will intensify
• Trust in food: local, healthy and sustainable
• Demographic shift: age, ethnicity and urbanization
• Economics: increasingly global markets, with rapid consolidation
• f growers and land costs keeping out new entrants

What shapes our thinking and direction?

A results-based, independent not-for-profit organization focused on horticultural science and innovation We measure our success in acres in the field and shelf space in the grocery store

Our process is real-world progress

Opportunity Analysis

Consumer Concept Business Partnerships Scientific Approach

How does Vineland create impact

IMPACT

Project Management

Project Management

The customer comes first

Putting consumer intelligence to work for horticulture

Feeding diversity

Bringing world crops to market

Putting technology to work

Process control and automation engineering

Opening new markets

Driving growth with new plant varieties

Breeding vegetables

For Canadian production and global markets

Canadian hardy rose

The breeding program

Improved traits

For horticultural crops

Enhancing quality and production

Canadian greenhouse tomatoes

Greening the Canadian landscape

The right tools

Integrating biological control systems

Making 100 into 10,000

We never work alone

The lab is my world The world is my lab Isolation Model Partnership Model

Staff Suppliers Gov’t University Industry

Thank you

• Dr. Jim Brandle, CEO

jim.brandle@vinelandresearch.com