For millennia, farming communities have faced the vagaries of climate – including droughts, changing rainfall patterns, floods, extreme temperatures, and hurricanes. To cope, farmers have developed intricate, agricultural knowledge systems. Through their work with biodiversity, seeds, and soils, small-scale farmers – like those supported through our Seeds of Survival program – have developed many of the solutions that can help them adapt. These ecological farming practices are not only time-tested, but serve to foster farmer-led innovation. But with increasingly unpredictable and extreme variations in weather, climate change is threatening both farmers and the world’s food supply.

Globally, the industrial farming system produces more than 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists tell us are causing these climate change impacts. Canada has been a significant emitter of greenhouse gasses, so we need to play our part in reducing the GHG emissions that harm our neighbours in the global South.

Act Now:

• Calculate your carbon footprint
• Explore the linkages between resilience and climate change
• Learn more about USC Canada’s Seeds of Survival program
• Read about agriculture’s role in mitigating climate change
• Support resilient, ecological farming through USC Canada