Translation of "La conservation des sols agricoles politique fédérale " (French → English) :

Agricultural soil conservation: federal policy [ Agricultural soil conservation ]

Agriculture Soil Conservation in Canada

Soil and Water Conservation & Land Stewardship

The 1972 Council of Europe's Soil Charter called on states to promote a soil conservation policy.

Use of Rural Development measures, including funding from the Community under the 'Special Accession Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development' (SAPARD) should target the promotion of organic agriculture, energy crops, other land conservation services and the development of 'non-farming' activities on farms.

In some EU regions outdated agricultural drainage systems are a major problem; with a view to climate change, more emphasis than hitherto should therefore be placed on long-term investment in agricultural infrastructure, such as the modernisation of drainage systems, in order to maintain the use of agricultural land for food production and preserve soil fertility.

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.