Cultivating Resilience Summit: Advancing Climate-Smart Agri-Food
🗓️ October 27-28, 2025 |📍Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue – Vancouver, BC |
Join us for a national summit uniting leaders from academia, research, and industry to explore the innovations and collaborations driving climate-smart agriculture and food systems in Canada.
2025 Provincial Workshop
Delivered in partnership with the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food, ACARN’s 2025 annual workshop was Lab to Land: Advancing water and soil research for agricultural resilience. Sessions explored current agricultural climate change research and projects from across the province, including keynote sessions on Indigenous partnered initiatives. We heard from those working on the ground and learned about the research and programs emerging to advance agricultural research and support BC farmers. Key topics included:
2024 Provincial Workshop
Delivered in partnership with the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food, ACARN’s 2024 annual workshop was Water, Soil, Climate: Research and resources for BC farmers. This workshop explored how we can to adapt to the climate change challenges facing the agriculture sector. We heard from those working on the ground and learned about the research and programs emerging to support BC farmers. Key topics included:
Agricultural Data Collection Protocols Conference
We hosted this two-day conference to make progress towards defining collective approaches for measuring soil organic carbon, greenhouse gas emissions and co-benefits in BC agricultural production systems.
The workshop was designed to showcase the common research approaches that will provide a framework for the BC Living Lab and to build connections with provincial government initiatives and other aligned projects. Find all sessions below.
