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Meeting considers value of land and nature
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Don and Kittie MacGregor of Londesborough pick up information at one of the booths at the
Valuing Nature and Your Land meeting at Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre, Nov.
23. More than 100 people attended to learn more about the concept of compensating farmers
for environmental goods and services. (Keith Roulston photo)
exports of agricultural products have
exploded, Bailey said.
There are benefits for those who
add value to farm products in export-
ing them, but the wealth created by
farmland is poorly distributed to the
farmers. Given their declining
income, "to expect farmers to pro-
vide more for the environment
through regulation is impossible."
Bailey said there is an environ-
mental cost to the status quo. The
farm income crisis has created an
erosion of the natural, social -and
economic capital of rural Canada, he
said.
While competitors like the U.S.
and European Community have
"green box" programs under the
World Trade Organization rules
which support their farmers' envi-
ronmental efforts, Canadian farmers
are left on their own. There have
been billions of dollars handed out in
farm income support programs with-
out having a lasting effect.
Meanwhile, he said, there has
been a proliferation of ineffective
environmental regulation.
Bailey promotes Alternative Land
Use Services (ALUS) which gives
money to farmers to provide servic-
es they aren't normally paid for. The
concept is now policy for the
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Continued on page 19
By Keith Roulston
The Citizen
More than 100 people, intrigued
about the concept of paying farmers
for providing environmental goods
and services, attended a meeting at
the Brussels, Morris and Grey
Community Centre, Nov. 23.
The meeting, jointly sponsored by
the Huron Stewardship Council,
Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority and Huron County plan-
ning department, brought together
speakers from across Ontario to dis-
cuss ways of compensating
landowners for benefits they produce
for society for which there are cur-
rently no returns.
Ian Campbell of Agriculture and
Agrifood Canada sits on a federal-
provincial committee looking into
the issue He explained that farmers
produce market products, food and
fibre, and non-market products such
as environmental benefits. The fed-
eral and provincial governments are
looking at the possibility of creating
a "market" for these benefits, he
said. The work of the committee was
endorsed at the Nov. 14 meeting of
federal and provincial ministers of
agriculture.
Dr. Robert Bailey vice-president
of policy, Canada, for Delta
Waterfowl Foundation elaborated on
these non-market values many of
which are essential to our life-sup-
port system. We can't survive with-
out clean air, he said. We can last
only a few days without water. Food
produced on farmland sustains both
the consumer and, economically, the
producer.
Plants grown on farmland and for-
est help produce clean air. Farmland
collects water which flows to
streams and the groundwater to sup-
port human activity. Farmland also
provides habitat for wildlife and fish
and contributes to biodiversity.
But because farmers are only
rewarded for food and fibre and not
for environmental "products" of
their farms, they are not encouraged
to increase their efforts to provide
these services that are beneficial to
society.
Meanwhile farm incomes have
remained static even while Canada's
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