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Tackling the Farm Crisis and the Climate Crisis

27 Jan 2020

Tackling the Farm Crisis and the Climate Crisis: A. Transformative Strategy for Canadian Farms and Food Systems A discussion paper by Darrin Qualman In collaboration with the National Farmers Union The NFU acknowledges its Farming Climate Solutions supporters and collaborators: I Copyright 2019 by the National Farmers Union (NFU) and the author. [...] This report is the product of hundreds of minds and decades of thinking and learning within farm communities and within the NFU. [...] Katie Ward NFU National President 4 Tackling the Farm Crisis and the Climate Crisis — National Farmers Union, November 2019 Introduction and Executive Summary The farm crisis and the climate crisis share many of the same causes, and many of the same solutions. [...] And, for farmers and all Canadians who care about our food system, movement toward a better future begins with a key insight: the farm crisis and the climate crisis share many of the same causes, and many of the same solutions. [...] It begins with the knowledge that a focus on high-output, high-input agriculture is the primary cause of the farm crisis and the primary cause of the increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from our farms and food-production systems.
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Pages
102
Published in
Saskatoon, SK CA

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