BC NDP
- Create a Regenerative Agricultural Network to make farming sustainable and create agricultural jobs.
- Expand the Grow, Feed and Buy BC programmes with new worker training, land acquisition supports, and new processing hubs.
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Jobs, the Economy, and Affordability
Agriculture plateformes
Voici ce que les partis de 2020 BC election promettent.BC Liberals
- Implement a Trespass Act to protect farmers' properties.
- Implement reforms to the Agricultural Land Commission to allow farming and ranching families to earn supplemental income on their farms and lease secondary residences.
- Ensure access to water for crops and livestock.
BC Greens
- Establish a long-term food sustainability strategy to decrease reliance on import supply chains.
- Make food production & food security part of the Agricultural Land Commision's mandate.
- Create a publicly owned agricultural land bank available to lease by new farmers.
Incentivize agro-ecological farming practices.
Support small-scale farms to adopt new technologies to reduce carbon emissions.
Identify options to make farming a more attractive and sustainable endeavour:
- Ensuring that farmers have access to local processing facilities and that they share in the returns from processing.
- Enabling the growing of high value crops, such as cannabis, to supplement farm income.
Provide $10 million per year to fund research and establish regional agricultural bureaus to provide expertise and support to local farmers to apply innovations on-farm and adapt to a changing climate.
Restrict and regulate foreign ownership of ALR land.
— From The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC.