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Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Those are the local food infrastructure programs.
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
John Fox
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Those are purely application-based. We send out the word as broadly as we can, including to members of Parliament, to invite applications to come in. They're community-based, so there's a broad list or suite of potential eligible applicants. They include even municipal government
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
John Fox
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee The program has been open for only about 14 months, so it's a little early to be able to determine where those best practices might lie.
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
John Fox
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee The only thing I could add is that in the emergency COVID responses around food, the focus of those responses has been specifically food, but we've been pretty flexible in how that food assistance could be distributed. In some cases in northern communities, it was found that dist
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
John Fox
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I am wondering if the member is looking specifically at the local food infrastructure projects that we've been doing in indigenous communities or at the emergency food response as a result of COVID. The approach is slightly different in each of those cases.
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
John Fox
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee I'll just add to what you referred to in your opening remarks, Matt. There is a project that our science and technology branch is working on with NRCan and others. It's on controlled growth chambers that are scalable for northern communities. It's still at the experimental stag
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
John Fox
Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee Our programs don't have a particular indigenous stream, but we do partner with indigenous communities in the north, either through our mainstream innovation programming or, as I said, through the local infrastructure fund. You might want to ask either our Indigenous Services coll
December 8th, 2020Committee meeting
John Fox
Environment committee I'll take the first stab and then hand it over. It wouldn't be the crop. It would be your cropping method. The advent of no-till, better drainage and control of water on the landscape has done more to reduce agriculture's contribution to greenhouse gases than any other single...
November 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
John Fox
Environment committee Nitrates are a contributor to greenhouse gas.
November 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
John Fox
Environment committee From my understanding—and I'm not a scientist either—it's largely in the production of the nitrates that creates a greenhouse gas, so their use, like the use of carbon-based fuels, is the contributor to the greenhouse gases. How they are used on a farm and the demand for phosphat
November 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
John Fox
Environment committee I can't elaborate on the science, but I can elaborate on the program. As I was saying, we have a greenhouse gas program that addresses that from an agriculture perspective, from a systems perspective. We'll look at livestock systems, at cropping systems, at water-use efficiency,
November 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
John Fox
Environment committee It's probably more appropriate for our forestry colleagues, but it's a big problem in agriculture all over.... What do you do with residue off field? We've been working with industry and looking for a whole bunch of different uses—making biopellets, different fuel sources, differ
November 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
John Fox
Environment committee We do bioproducts, but they do a lot more in the bioenergy field.
November 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
John Fox
Environment committee I have seen some studies that have identified the agricultural sources by types of agricultural practice. We may be able to go back and find you a study that identifies the livestock contribution, for example, in comparison with other cropping methodologies.
November 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
John Fox
Environment committee We have a relatively small program called the agricultural greenhouse gas program, which is specific to addressing environmental concerns arising from agricultural technologies. It's to develop specific beneficial practices that farmers can adopt on the farm. We tend to look at t
November 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
John Fox