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Greetings from C-CIARN Agriculture, The Government of Canada’s Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation web site features all the research reports from their sponsored projects on the agriculture sector. Access website One of those reports, Farm-Level Adaptation to Multiple Risks: Climate Change and Other Concerns, is also available through C-CIARN agriculture’s web site. Access report Video presentations from the Cop 11 Parallel event, Living with Climate Change: Sharing Adaptation Experiences (December, 2005) are now available on CD. If you would like copies just contact our office, ewall@uoguelph.ca A new web site dedicated to the contemplation and documentation of Canadian farmers' adaptation to multiple risks (and opportunities) has been launched. Of interest are long term climate change, extreme weather events, significant policy reforms, commodity market shifts, currency fluctuations, an outbreak of disease in livestock, or the introduction of a novel (bio)technology. Contributions to the site are welcome. http://www.multiplerisks.com/ Manager in the Adaptation Programme with UNFCCC. Click here for details. Drought, disease cost farmers in 2005, Statistics Canada reports Canadian Press | May 27, 2006 Realized net income for Canadian farmers fell in 2005 to its lowest level since 2003, following two years of drought and more than two years of battling trade restrictions because of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease. Statistics Canada says realized net income - the difference between a farmer's cash receipts and operating expenses minus depreciation, plus income in kind - declined 7.7 per cent to $2.1 billion. Full story available here Australia's Wool Industry Squeezed by Drought, China Planet Ark | by Michael Byrnes | May 29, 2006 Australia's eastern grazing lands have turned scrubby brown as drought strikes yet again, adding to deepening woes for wool growers suffering a long, slow decline from changing fashions and soft prices. Full story available here All for now, Ellen Wall ewall@uoguelph.ca Co-ordinator, C-CIARN Agriculture (Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network for Agriculture) Blackwood Hall (Room 202) University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 Phone: 519 824 4120 ext 58480 Fax: 519 763 4686 http://www.c-ciarn.uoguelph.ca |
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