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.
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.