Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
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Speaker: Tony McQuail Session: Bridging the Capacity of Agriculture to Adapt to Climate Change
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Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
- 1. Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change Bring Food Home November 17, 2013 Tony McQuail
- 2. Big Challenges • • • • • Climate Change Peak Oil - Peak Everything? Environmental Degradation Economic Inequity Social Deterioration – Can we develop approaches that address all these challenges at once? – Agriculture is the largest land use on the planet – How it is structured has profound implications for all these challenges.
- 5. Meeting Place Organic Farm
- 11. Solar energy at Meeting Place Organic Farm And Carbon Sequestration
- 12. HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT Creating The Life You Want
- 13. HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT • How to: Care for your PEOPLE Improve the LAND Make a PROFIT By making better decisions
- 14. Bare Capped Soil - Zimbabwe Allan Savory and African Range Land 6 months later – After - 200 cattle & 100 goats in a new area each day Improving land health by learning to mimic Nature – Particularly with grazing animals for animal impact and herd effect. Two Years Later
- 15. Holistic Decision Making Uses A HOLISTIC GOAL and SEVEN TESTING QUESTIONS
- 16. Steps in HM Process • Create a Holistic Goal with inclusive group – Quality of Life – Forms of Production – Future Resource Base • Learn & Use Seven Testing Questions – Keep moving forward towards Holistic Goal • Learn About 4 ecosystem Processes – – – – Water Cycle, Mineral Cycle, Community dynamics Energy Flow • Use Planning Processes – Weak link determination – Financial analysis and forecasting – Plan-Monitor-Control- Replan.
- 17. Adaptation – not just Farm • Sally talk about Transition Town movement. • Follow with discussion Break • Then resume with some stories from Meeting Place Organic Farm
- 18. Discussion – 20 Minutes Total • 5 minutes -individually to consider • -How can you apply these ideas to your own life NOW? • - How would the application of these ideas improve or damage your community? • 15 minutes group discussion – Appoint a recorder
- 19. Holistic Management Examples from MPOF • • • • • Holistic Goal 4 ecosystem processes Testing Questions Financial Management Monitor/replan
- 20. A Family Holiday?? In The Summer????
- 21. August 1996 in BC
- 23. Testing = Snow Scoop
- 25. Financial Planning Developed New Enterprises CSA Garden Pick Up Freezer Meat Retailing
- 26. Adapting Agriculture? • • • • • Need to have a vision of where to go Need to have a process that guides us Need to accept we may be wrong Need to be able to correct our direction Need to work with others
- 27. Lots of Systems • • • • • • • Organic Ag Ecological Ag Permaculture Restoration Agriculture Regenerative Agriculture Regrarian Community Supported Agriculture – Holistic Management is a process that can work with any system.
- 28. Give out Handout • Any last comments or questions?