If elected on September 20th, the Green Party of Canada says it would restructure the next Ag Policy Framework to shift program dollars from supporting corporate-controlled industrial agriculture to supporting agriculture that is based on ecological and animal welfare principles.
This would include organic and regenerative practices, permaculture, localized food systems, higher welfare farming systems and short value chains.
Dr. Maria Rodriguez is the Green Party's agriculture critic.
"We want to shift program dollars. We know that the federal government has realized, for example, that we need to farm in ways that sequester more carbon in the soil, prevent the decline of organic matter in the soil," she said.