Development of this Briefing Note, and the accompanying Summary and Background reports, relied heavily on the support of committed and highly dedicated research assistants who laid down the foundation for the policy recommen- dations put forward: Ngaio Hotte, a senior ACT researcher and graduate of the UBC Master of Food and Resource Economics program, is a UBC Fisheries Economist. [...] All of these and other factors are to a degree in a constant state of flux, a condition which the agricultural sector in Canada has been able to cope with, given the resilient nature of food producers and the roles played by governments and insurers to support business continuity through difficult circumstances. [...] While somewhat out-of-date – some of the initiatives outlined in the summary above were not yet underway during the 2010 assessment – the report provides the following analysis: In all the provinces and territories, we saw an effort to integrate and take account of the challenges that climate change poses for the agricultural sector in various policies and various sectoral programs (e.g., energy,. [...] “Now,” he said, “my nephews will have to labour hard to make the sugar out of this sap, and the sugar will be much more valuable to them in the future time.” Despite the labour involved in the extraction of maple syrup and maple sugar, Aboriginal peoples who lived in maple regions used to produce both in large quantities. [...] The effects of climate change on the Alberta beef industry can be mitigated by decreasing the density of cattle, adopting small-scale farming techniques, and getting away from the large industrial feedlots that currently produce the majority of beef cattle in the country.
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