Non-UBC Event

Lab to Land: Advancing water and soil research for agricultural resilience

January 15 - January 16, 2025

Online

Join  BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network online to connect with researchers, farmers, agrologists, and policymakers from across the province. Grow your network and participate in thought-provoking discussions on adapting to climate change challenges at both farm and landscape scales. This multi-day workshop offers presentations, panels, and networking sessions exploring projects and research that are advancing agricultural resilience:

  • Explore collaborative approaches to drought resilience across the province. Featured projects address adaptation from the farm to watershed level and include research from on-farm management to Indigenous co-governance.
  • Dive into research investigating how soil supports ecological and community resilience. Discuss farmer-led research to evaluate soil management practices and learn about collaborative soil stewardship integrating Western scientific and Indigenous methodologies.

All sessions will be recorded - you'll receive all recordings whether or not you are able to participate in the live sessions.

AGENDA AT A GLANCE

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
WATER: Collaborative approaches to drought resilience

8:45-10am: Workshop welcome and presentation: Towards adaptive agricultural water management: Indigenous-led co-governance in the Xwulqw'selu (Koksilah) Watershed
10:15-11:15am: Project showcase: Actioning BC's drought strategy through on-farm research and extension
11:30-12:30pm: Discussion and networking session: Groundwater/surfacewater interactions and connections across water research areas

Thursday, January 16, 2025
SOIL: Supporting ecological and community resilience

8:45-10am: Workshop welcome and presentation: Restoring Indigenous forest gardens: The influence of ancestral stewardship on soil processes
10:15-11:15am: Panel: Farmer-led soil research projects for climate adaptation and mitigation
11:30-12:30pm: Discussion and networking session: On-farm soil biology testing and connections across soil research areas

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  • Non-UBC Event

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

Climate Solutions Research Collective

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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