THE FOOD PROFESSOR / SELECTED RESEARCH
Behind
the numbers.
Food prices. Changing habits. The systems that connect them.
Explore selected work from Sylvain Charlebois and the Agri-Food Analytics Lab.
THE COST OF EVERYDAY LIFECANADA’S FOOD PRICE REPORT
2026↗Explore the annual outlook
01 / FEATURED REPORT
A grocery bill.
A bigger story.
What could food cost in 2026? Explore the published forecast across nine food categories, and the forces behind the headline.
Forecast increase in overall food prices.
An annual outlook, not a live price measure.
Published · 16th edition
Explore the interactive report ↗Read the original PDF ↗02 / CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR
Spring
2026.
The changing habits
behind the shopping basket.
Affordability, consumption and trust in the Spring 2026 Food Sentiment Index. Read the findings and methodology at the lab.
Explore the study at Dalhousie ↗KEEP EXPLORING
One question leads
to another.
Food distribution, policy, safety, security and traceability. Find the wider body of work in the institutional archive.
Visit the research lab ↗