The federal government’s Sustainable Agriculture Strategy is causing concerns for agricultural producers, given its potential impacts on farm practices.
The discussion paper for the strategy, released Dec. 12, proposes five goals.
The first is to make the agriculture industry “resilient to short and long-term climate impacts.” The second is to improve “environmental performance” while “contributing to the environmental, economic and social benefit” of Canadians. Ensuring the agriculture industry remains “competitive” as it does its part to align with Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets is the third.
The fourth goal is a more comprehensive and integrated “value chain” across programming, policy, and partners, while the fifth is to improve data captured to measure, report on, and track environmental performance in the agriculture and agri-food industries….