Canada's Organic Science Cluster

Activity E.2: Modeling Global Warming Potential (GWP) reductions associated with sub-watershed wide transition to organic farming

Objectives:

1. To model land use changes in a sub-watershed associated with full transition of all farms to organic farming
2. To understand the E and GWG emissions associated with such a scenario
3. To advance understanding of the impacts of widespread adoption of organic farming in Canada
4. To determine the environmental value added associated with the transition process which will help with branding Canadian food products as environmentally sustainable.

Learn More:

• Activity Summary
• Background and Supporting Documents
• Activity Researchers

Interesting Results to Date:

• NEW!! The Carbon Footprint of Organic Farms
• Tools for Geospatial and Agent Based Modeling to Evaluate Climate Change in an Agricultural Watershed in Transition to Organic Agriculture
• Stay tuned for additional reports, newspaper articles, and extension bulletins related to this activity.

 

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