Harnessing the power of soil to help farmers build climate resilience

Targeted increased federal and provincial government investment will help thousands more farmers across Canada adopt soil-health management practices that are good for their profits and climate resilience.
Our farmers are on the front lines of climate change, developing tools and strategies to improve soil health that help them adapt. Soil health is good for profitability, climate, and the environment, write Edward McDonnell and Colleen Thorpe.
Canadian agriculture is an economic powerhouse, contributing $143-billion to Canada’s economy in 2018 and supporting one-in-eight jobs. It is also highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In recent years, farmers’ yields have at times been reduced as much as 50 per cent in some regio...

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