Traduction de «soil conservation program » (Anglais → Français) :

20. Expresses concern over the fact that poverty eradication strategies in general have largely overlooked the vital role played by natural resources such as forests, soils, range lands, fresh-water and marine resources in the daily life of the rural poor; hence calls for massive programs of aforestation, soil conservation, water development, etc., to strengthen the livelihoods of the poor, and consequently for the merger of Agenda 21 and the Social Summit Agenda so as to ...[+++] fully integrate work in the fields of poverty eradication and natural resource management;

They are far ranging and include loan guarantees for farm improvements and marketing co-operatives, a special Atlantic livestock initiative, a national farm business management program, a provincial potato diversion program, the southwestern Ontario soil and water quality enhancement program as well as the national soil conservation program, the Canadian agri-food development initiative and economic regional development initiatives (1910 ) There are even some in my province of Saskatchewan; a Canada-Saskatchewan partnership agreement on rural development, a Canada-Saskatchewan partnership agreement on irrigation based economic developme ...[+++]nt.

Such programs as the national soil conservation program, the sustainable agriculture green plan program, the permanent cover program, and our new national soil and water conservation program have all focused on encouraging farm production management practices that either directly or indirectly mitigate the effects of production on greenhouse gas emissions.

Over the coming planning period we will see a number of deliverables in this area, and I'll list a number of examples: completion and publication of a report on the health of our atmosphere—this is a companion report to one you've seen before called Health of our Soils; transfer of the Plant Gene Resources Centre to Saskatoon; registration of a high-protein soybean variety for eastern Canada with significant yield to improvement; registration of prairie spring wheat with significant improvement in protein content; development of new anaerobic digestion technology to handle manure in an environmentally sustainable manner; development ...[+++] of technologies to improve ruminant nutrition—this again has efficiency and waste reduction objectives; development of processes for extracting food or feed additives from various agricultural products; increased access to safe, reliable water supplies for rural areas; maintenance of biological diversity through sustainable management of federally controlled and private range lands; development of a prairie-wide assessment for land-based issues facing the agriculture and agrifood sector; implementation of the national soil and water conservation program; implementation of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's biodiversity strategy; determination of the environmental sustainability of the departmental policies and programs; periodic assessment and reporting of the progress in implementing the department's sustainable development strategy, which is essentially the implementation of the action plan under that strategy; and development and implementation of the department's hog environmental management strategy, HEMS.