Background Report: Climate Change Adaptation and Canada's Crops and Food Supply
This report looks at past experience and emerging approaches through the lens of complex adaptive systems governance principles and practices, and outlines steps the need to ensure that agriculture and the agri-food sector’s combined economic and secure food supply roles are sustainable.
Canada’s crops and food supplies are subject to climate changes that will affect production conditions across diverse landscapes. These changes range from increased intensity and frequency of climate extreme events such as flooding and drought to complex mixes of longer-term warmer, wetter and drier conditions.
Given the urgency of these types of impacts on food supply chains in Canada, this report focuses on the extreme weather adaptation and risk reduction challenges to start a process that begins to address key governance questions.
