Thank you for the question.
Climate change is an important pillar of our strategic plan for science. It's trying to focus investments around building more resilient agricultural systems, including more water resilience to extremes in climate. It's also promoting, adopting and testing best management practices to help retain water in the soil and to ensure that agricultural productivity remains consistent under a changing climate.
We've invested in a number of living labs projects under the agricultural climate solutions program. This includes a site in British Columbia where our scientists are working with farmers directly and with non-governmental agencies that work with the farming community to design best management practices that are workable and feasible in each community and that meet the specific concerns in each of those regions to ensure that there's both the scientific evidence to promote the adoption of these practices and a confidence within the community that these new practices will help support resilient agriculture in the future.