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Adapting Agriculture to

Climate Change

Bring Food Home

November 17, 2013

Tony McQuail

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Big Challenges

• Climate Change

• Peak Oil - Peak Everything?

• Environmental Degradation

• Economic Inequity

• Social Deterioration

– Can we develop approaches that address all

these challenges at once?

– Agriculture is the largest land use on the

planet – How it is structured has profound

implications for all these challenges.

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Meeting Place Organic Farm

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Solar energy at Meeting Place Organic Farm And Carbon Sequestration

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HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT

Creating The Life You Want

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HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT

• How to:

Care for your PEOPLE

Improve the LAND

Make a PROFIT

By making better decisions

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Allan Savory and

African Range Land

Improving land health by learning to mimic

Nature – Particularly with grazing animals for

animal impact and herd effect.

Bare Capped Soil - Zimbabwe

6 months later – After - 200 cattle &

100 goats in a new area each day

Two Years Later

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Holistic Decision Making

Uses

A HOLISTIC GOAL

and

SEVEN TESTING QUESTIONS

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Steps in HM Process

• Create a Holistic Goal with inclusive group – Quality of Life

– Forms of Production

– Future Resource Base

• Learn & Use Seven Testing Questions – Keep moving forward towards Holistic Goal

• Learn About 4 ecosystem Processes – Water Cycle,

– Mineral Cycle,

– Community dynamics

– Energy Flow

• Use Planning Processes – Weak link determination

– Financial analysis and forecasting

– Plan-Monitor-Control- Replan.

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Adaptation – not just Farm

• Sally talk about Transition Town

movement.

• Follow with discussion Break

• Then resume with some stories from

Meeting Place Organic Farm

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Discussion – 20 Minutes Total

• 5 minutes -individually to consider

• -How can you apply these ideas to your

own life NOW?

• - How would the application of these ideas

improve or damage your community?

• 15 minutes group discussion

– Appoint a recorder

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Holistic Management

Examples from MPOF

• Holistic Goal

• 4 ecosystem processes

• Testing Questions

• Financial Management

• Monitor/replan

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A Family Holiday??

In The Summer????

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August 1996 in BC

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Replace Snow Blower?

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Testing = Snow Scoop

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Energy & Community

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Financial Planning

Developed New

Enterprises

CSA Garden Pick Up

Freezer Meat Retailing

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Adapting Agriculture?

• Need to have a vision of where to go

• Need to have a process that guides us

• Need to accept we may be wrong

• Need to be able to correct our direction

• Need to work with others

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Lots of Systems

• Organic Ag

• Ecological Ag

• Permaculture

• Restoration Agriculture

• Regenerative Agriculture

• Regrarian

• Community Supported Agriculture

– Holistic Management is a process that can

work with any system.

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Give out Handout

• Any last comments or questions?


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