Green farming platforms
Here's what the 2019 Canadian election parties are promising.Green
- Establish emissions targets.
- Fund research and support for farmers shifting to organic and regenerative farming systems.
- Renew the Environmental Farm Plan Program to help farmers protect wildlife habitat, maintain water quality.
- Improve soil quality.
Establish climate change emission targets for all components of the food system, including nitrogen fertilizer use, livestock production and transportation.
Fund research and extend support for farmers shifting from conventional to organic and regenerative farming systems which work with nature, not against it, to produce food.
Renew the national Environmental Farm Plan Program to help farmers protect wildlife habitat areas and marginal lands, maintain water quality in streams, lakes and aquifers, and retain and improve soil quality, increase carbon sequestration and decrease water requirements.
Restore the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation measures for adaptation to drought conditions.
Restructure Canada’s Business Risk Management Programs to help farmers cope with climate risk, with the focus on disaster assistance.
From Election Platform 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.