UM Today | Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences | Preparing for Prairie Agriculture 2050 in a Climate of Change
In 2014 the Alberta Institute of Agrologists (AIA) approached the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment to write a green paper on Climate and Food: Is There a Future? The result was the visioning document “Moving Toward Prairie Agriculture 2050” where 23 agriculture scientists and experts from varied backgrounds reflect on the possible changes to our Prairie agricultural systems over the coming decades.
Recently the AIA asked editors Brian Amiro and Karin Wittenberg to check in at the five year mark to see how the predictions were playing out. They shared their “Still Moving Toward Prairie Agriculture 2050” review with professional Agrologists in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta earlier this year. The following are excerpts from this follow-up paper.