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Wine is a beloved product, with a global wine market worth hundreds of billions of dollars. However, with consumption down around the world and climate change making the cultivation of the grapes themselves an increasingly fraught undertaking, it is clear that the wine industry is going to face critical challenges in the years to come.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Laila Benkrima of Simon Fraser University discusses the current challenges facing Canada’s wine industry and how, even in a warming world, it is not too late to build a sustainable wine industry, arguing that “this adversity could catalyze a heightened focus on sustainability, adaptation and innovation within the viticulture sector.”
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A giant wine bottle is displayed at the Summerhill Pyramid Winery in Kelowna, B.C., in Feb. 2024. Home to more than 180 licensed grape wineries and known as “the wine capital of Canada,” the Okanagan Valley is also nationally renowned for fruit orchards that produce apples, peaches and cherries.
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Laila Benkrima, Simon Fraser University
Global warming poses great challenges to Canada’s wine industry. But in these challenges lie equally great opportunities to build a better, and more sustainable, wine industry.
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