{"id":4331,"date":"2018-03-27T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T20:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2018-03-27T13:46:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T20:46:32","slug":"mfre-seminar-agriculture-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-4331","title":{"rendered":"MFRE Seminar &#8211; Agriculture and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 29:\u00a0Agriculture and Climate Change with Harmony Bjarnason (MFRE\u201915, BC Agriculture and Food Climate Action Initiative \u2013 Kelowna)<\/strong><b><br \/>\n<\/b><strong>6:45pm, ORCH 1001\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harmony works with the BC Agriculture &amp; Food\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcagclimateaction.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate Action Initiative<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0<em>Regional Adaptation Strategies<\/em>\u00a0program \u2013 a regional approach to evaluating the agriculture sector\u2019s risks and opportunities in relation to climate change. She develops and delivers projects to support adaptation and build sector resilience in farming communities in BC. She also operates a small hops farm in Kelowna.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentation<\/strong>:\u00a0Enhancing Agriculture\u2019s Ability to Adapt to Climate Change<\/p>\n<p>How will climate change affect agricultural operations in the Province of BC (this presentation will focus on the Fraser Valley, Delta and the Okanagan) and what do we need to do today to ensure the sector remains resilient in the coming decades? Priorities and strategies for the agriculture sector\u2019s adaptation to hotter and drier summer conditions, extreme precipitation events, increased pest and disease pressure and increased wildfire risk will be outlined with a discussion of planning and projects (completed or underway) to address these challenges, both at the regional and farm scale.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All are invited!<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"background: white; margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">Gabrielle\u00a0Menard<\/span><\/b><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #002145; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0MFRE<br \/>\nAcademic Coordinator,\u00a0Graduating Projects Manager<br \/>\nLand and Food Systems\u00a0|\u00a0Master of Food and Resource Economics<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus<br \/>\n348A-2357 Main Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver British Columbia\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada<br \/>\nCell 604 764 0305<br \/>\n<a>gabrielle.menard@ubc.ca<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 29:\u00a0Agriculture and Climate Change with Harmony Bjarnason (MFRE\u201915, BC Agriculture and Food Climate Action Initiative \u2013 Kelowna) 6:45pm, ORCH 1001\u00a0 Harmony works with the BC Agriculture &amp; Food\u00a0Climate Action Initiative\u00a0on the\u00a0Regional Adaptation Strategies\u00a0program \u2013 a regional approach to evaluating the agriculture sector\u2019s risks and opportunities in relation to climate change. She develops and delivers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}