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SUMMARY:Exploring the LEAP Project - Leveraging Ecosystems to transform Agriculture on the Prairies
DESCRIPTION:The NFU is a partner organization to the Leveraging Ecosystems to transform Agriculture on the Prairies (LEAP) Project at the University of Manitoba. The LEAP Project seeks to explore agricultural intensification strategies and design farming systems that use technology and nature-based tools to reduce GHG emissions\, capture carbon\, support biodiversity\, and help agriculture mitigate and adapt to negative effects of climate change. The Project encompasses five activities: Farmer Engagement\, First Nations Self-Determined Farming Systems\, Landscape Analyses\, Net-Zero Farming Systems\, and Future Farm Scenarios. \n\n\n\nThis NFUniversity session explores the work being completed in the Landscape Analyses and Future Farm Scenarios activities. The Landscape Analyses activity evaluates how perennialization strategies already being implemented in the eastern Prairie region may help to shift agriculture to net-zero using data collected on farms. The Future Farm Scenarios activity uses Agriculture and Agrifood Canada’s Holos model to answer “what if?” questions regarding land management decisions that affect a farm’s GHG emissions
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/exploring-the-leap-project-leveraging-ecosystems-to-transform-agriculture-on-the-prairies/
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SUMMARY:Lives and Experiences of South Asian Migrant Agricultural Workers in British Columbia
DESCRIPTION:In the late 1970s\, a group of young South Asian men  in BC recognized the need for farmworkers to organize\, which led to the creation of the Canadian Farmworkers Union (CFU). A documentary about the CFU\, celebrated images of its members and showed how women joined the struggle for better working conditions. While the CFU seemed to be  a success story\,  when conducting interviews in rural Abbotsford this past year\, it became clear to Dr. Anushay Malik that the conditions the CFU fought against are still very much alive and well in rural BC.In this NFUniversity session Dr. Malik will chronicle the formation of the CFU\, its successes\, and why those successes were short-lived. This exploration of the history of the CFU will help answer key questions about labour organizing\, including: what motivates workers to come together to form a union at some points\, and at other times\, resist unionizing efforts? How did the CFU manage to involve so many migrant women in the union? Why didn’t the CFU lead to lasting change? What are the current conditions for South Asian farmworker women in BC today?
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/lives-and-experiences-of-south-asian-migrant-agricultural-workers-in-british-columbia/
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