Agriculture committee  Yes, it's necessary if you're building your national strategy around carbon and soils, or trees for that matter, to put measures in place that make sure it will stay there. Otherwise, it will be re-emitted or it can be re-emitted. That's a critical concern that people are thinkin

Agriculture committee  I do think flexibility is essential. Mandating specific practices often might have a negative effect on a particular farm. You do need to build in some ability to meet those individual farm's needs. Something might work in one soil type and not in another, for example. Without c

Agriculture committee  I'm very enthusiastic about willows and poplars, which can grow to very high latitudes in Canada, for short rotation biomass systems. It's not particularly for energy as my focus, but they have lots of applications in the material and chemical feedstock industries, where they cou

Agriculture committee  The tomato is not easily perennialized at this point. We don't have a good substitute. Annuals are great. We should grow the things that are annual and grow them well, but we can supplement with many other perennial vegetables. The great advantage, to me, for perennial vegetable

Agriculture committee  There are many perennial vegetables. I've written several books about them. Many of them are extremely high in the nutrients that people have the greatest deficiencies in, in countries like Canada.

Agriculture committee  The first one would be France. It has really been leading the way in research and development and agroforestry, and it has a national commitment to convert a million and a half acres of cropland to agroforestry over the next decade or two. Another outstanding example until recen

Agriculture committee  Personally, I would. The carbon sequestration rates on farms that have trees integrated into them are three to five times higher than on those with the improved cropping and improved grazing systems alone. Where it actually can improve profitability and productivity, it does make

Agriculture committee  It's an interesting question. It seems to me that there aren't any one-size-fits-all practices. I don't think it would be appropriate to mandate that all farmers must implement a particular practice, because each piece of land is a bit different and each farmer's needs and their

Agriculture committee  I would suspect that would bring some challenges with it. In terms of increasing fertilizer use, that refers more to areas where it is underutilized, which is not the case in most of North America. I do work globally, so I may have implied something incorrectly there.

Agriculture committee  Certainly. It's clear that some foods tend to have much higher emissions than others, both directly from their production and by using more land than other crops. If you can shift diets to some degree to some of those lower-emission foods, that can reduce emissions from agricultu

Agriculture committee  One interesting thing about that category is that there are perhaps hundreds of different ways of doing it, from a very conventional approach of increasing fertilizer use and integrated pest management and so on, to the integration of trees with crops so that you can produce timb

Agriculture committee  Thank you, honourable members. I hope today to share my experience as a former senior fellow for Project Drawdown and researcher on agricultural climate change mitigation. My knowledge relates to science and practices rather than policy. That part I will leave to you. Climate c