HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Rural Voice, 2000-06, Page 25Is your soil in good enough
condition to provide some buffering
of these extremes? Do you manage
the water resources on your farm to
give you maximum resilience? Are
you properly managing your natural
features — forested areas, riparian
zones, ponds and watercourses — to
protect the quality and quantity of
your water supply? Does your
livestock management contribute to
or detract from your ability to
manage under extreme weather?
And are farm organizations doing
enough to help their members
prepare and putting enough pressure
on governments to assist with those
preparations?
Farmers have always talked about
the weather. It's time to think about
how you will need to adapt your
farming system to a changing
climate!°
Rod MacRae, PhD, a Toronto food
policy consultant, wrote this article
with co-operation of the Maitland
Valley Conservation Authority.
For more
information:
Here are some websites that
contain some of the information
mentioned in the above article as
well as other climate -related
information:
Http://www.epa.5gov/oppeoee 1/g
lobalwarmi ng/reports/pubs/ipcc/s
ummary: Summary for
Policymakers: the regional
impacts of climate change: an
assessment of vulnterability. A
special report of Working Group
II of the IPCC.
www:wetland.sk.ca Internet site
of the Saskatchewan Wetlands
Conservation Corporation.
http://www.epa.gov/owowwtr 1/N
PS/MMGUChapter2/ch2-2e.html
Guidance Specifying
Management Measures for
Sources of Non -Point Pollution
in Coastal Waters (Chapter 2:
Management measures for
agricultural sources). Non -Point
Source . Polution Control
Program. Environmental
Protection Agency, Office of
Water.°
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