Environment
Environmental stewardship is the foundation for the sector's long term health and vitality. Canada's success in agriculture is based on a foundation of industry innovation, scientific research and public policy that encourages farming to be more productive while keeping the land healthy. Since the first experimental farms were established over 110 years ago, Canada has become one of the world's most important food producers with a world-wide reputation.
Key sites:
- Agricultural Policy Framework (APF)
- Environment
- Environmental Farm Planning Initiative
- National Farm Stewardship Program
- Greencover Canada
- National Agri-Environmental Standards Initiative (NAESI)
- National Water Supply Expansion Program
- National Agri-Environmental Health Analysis and Reporting Program
- Pesticide Risk Reduction and Minor Use Programs
- Drought Watch
- Environment Bureau
- Farmers taking action for the environment
- Food Value Chain Bureau
- ManureNet
- National Land and Water Information Service
- National Soil Conservation Week: consider the importance of healthy farmland
- National Symposium on Ecological Goods and Services in Agriculture
- Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
- Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
- Water - every drop counts - Highlighting key AAFC programs and projects
Enviro-features
- Soil Conservation
- Water Quality [PDF | PDF Help]
- In the ag business, retaining water is a good thing
- Improving water quality along the Salmon River
- Improving water quality on the Lower Little Bow River
- Improving On-Farm and Local Water Quality
- Improving water quality along the South Nation River
- Agricultural practices are aimed at improving water quality
- Improving water quality in the Black Brook
- Improving water quality in the Thomas Brook
Other Government Resources:
- Agriculture in Harmony With Nature II
- Agriculture-Environmental Programs in Ontario 1986-1997
- Environment
Canada
- Envirozine, Environment Canada's online magazine.
- Clean Water
- The Federal-Provincial Crop Insurance Program:
An Integrated Environmental-Economic Assessment - Federal Science
- Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
- Canadian Museum of Nature
- Climate Change and Health - Health Canada