Developing leaders and facilitating collaboration
on issues facing rural and northern Ontario.

An exciting new project starts off the year for Dr. Silvia Sarapura who is the recipient of a SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant 2022- 2023 to look at how gender-based violence (GBV) impacts temporary foreign workers (TFW) in Canada's agricultural sector. Four SEDRD graduate students will support this project, including Margarita Fontecha, Charlotte Potter, Regan Zink and Nicole Cupolo. 

GUELPH, ON, July 12, 2023 - The Rural Ontario Institute (ROI) is excited to announce the twenty current and emerging leaders from across the province selected to be a part of Class 20 of the Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program (AALP). Participants will start their AALP leadership journey in August 2023.