Agriculture committee  Do you mean environmental plans for dairy?

Agriculture committee  No.

Agriculture committee  Well, I have colleagues in Quebec whom I work with in agroforestry. I work a lot with Dr. Joann Whelan, Dr. Robert Bradley, and Dr. Alain Olivier from the University of Laval, but we generally collaborate mostly in the types of land use systems that I mentioned.

Agriculture committee  One hectare of....

Agriculture committee  Yes, it could capture more carbon, but the carbon is lost, whereas the carbon stored in the forest stays there. Also, because of the longevity of the trees, they also enhance carbon sequestration below ground, whereas corn.... I'm not a big fan of removing agriculture residue for

Agriculture committee  Yes, Dr. Lisa Zabek, from the provincial ministry, is leading the silvopastoral systems in B.C. Actually, I have written two book chapters, and silvopastoral systems are promoted more for western Canada than for eastern Canada, so yes, this type of land use system that we see now

Agriculture committee  It's in this connection that I was talking about marginal land. In my talk I said, let us exclude classes 1 and 2. Let us not go into the highly productive agricultural lands. Let us focus these land use systems to classes 3 to 6, and we are blessed with 46 million hectares that

Agriculture committee  You can call me Naresh.

Agriculture committee  Perennial grass is not agroforestry per se. Agroforestry is the integration of trees or shrubs into the agricultural landscape. The perennialization of grasses will also contribute to soil carbon sequestration and soil erosion control. Several of the ecosystem services I mentione

Agriculture committee  Mass planting comes under a different definition. It will come under either reforestation or afforestation. I would slightly defer from saying that we are trying to bring forestry into agriculture, because the tree density I'm talking about is insignificant when you compare it wi

Agriculture committee  I'm talking about 50 trees per hectare or 75 trees per hectare, so it is not per se forestry. What we are trying to do here is to capture the nutrient-cycling aspects, the carbon sequestration aspects, the biodiversity aspects, and the ecosystem services aspects that could be d

Agriculture committee  It was closed in 2012-13.

Agriculture committee  There is less work in agroforestry going on, but they are not contributing any national agroforestry work.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  Yes. That's what I was congratulating the minister for, the agricultural greenhouse gases program. That program started with the Conservative government, but the Liberal government is continuing that program, which is welcomed. That is what is kicking up a lot of research in agro