Some Important Concepts: Safe and nutritious food, rural development, organic production, integrated pest management systems, innovative agriculutural technologies, mitigating climate change, decline in family farming, human resource challenges, competing uses of land, zero hunger.

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Background information and basis in Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and Additional Resources

Questions for discussion:

• What elements and practices are central to fostering resilient agricultural production systems?  (see background documents on resilience) View discussion and comment
• What policy instruments, programs, and processes need to be put in place for the development of agricultural production systems that foster resilience and advance sustainable development in Canada? View discussion and comment
• What challenges and barriers exist to fostering resilient agricultural production systems?  View discussion and comment
• Conventional agriculture, ecological agriculture, innovative agricultural technologies, bioenergy, mitigating climate change, other competing uses of farmland…  How do we find an appropriate balance?  View discussion and comment
• How can we respond to the decline in family owned and operated farms, the need for new and young farmers, and the shortage of skilled people? View discussion and comment
• What formal and non-formal education is needed for strengthening resilient agricultural production systems? View discussion and comment

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