MainDB: Adapting to climate change through changing growing patterns and spreading risks
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Adapting to climate change through changing growing patterns and spreading risks
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North America
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Adaptation planning and practices; Financial support
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Agriculture; Food security; Water resources; Biodiversity
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Canada
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Meinert Enterprises is a southwestern Saskatchewan agriculture operation concerned with dryland farming. Meinert produces cereals, pulses, and forages in a continental climate on approximately 6,000 acres of land. Conditions are semi-arid and challenging due to both annual and seasonal variability and unpredictable frosts.
Typically, there are 110 frost-free days, an average of 15 inches of moisture, and an abundance of sunlight in the region. Noting that farm decisions must include managing several factors at once, challenges include economic risks related to interest rates, dollar value, energy costs, and the need to maintain a consistent cash flow in a highly variable environment related to marketing and income. Uncertainty in these factors is exacerbated by the uncertainty in climate and weather conditions. In recent years, the major concerns pertaining to moisture levels.
Meinert Enterprises employs several farm practices to lessen the negative effects of moisture deficits including: trapping snow with stubble from the crops (some crops leave more desirable stubble than others); diversifying crops to include those with greater drought resistance, varying maturation lengths, and different stubble heights; enhanced early moisture infiltration; and employing crop rotation to improve soil quality.
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Meinert employs different strategies for managing farm finances in light of climate/economic risks. In addition to the changes in its farm practices mentioned above, these strategies include taking part in income stabilization programs, buying crop insurance, and earning off-farm income.
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Meinert Enterprises
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A Systematic Review of the Literature on Business Adaptation to Climate Change (Network for Business Sustainability):
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d51595e713bcb0001848959/t/5d6c73e97c793f0001c85980/1567388650602/NBS_ClimateChange_Concepts_2009.pdf
See the case study summary here:
https://unfccc.int/files/adaptation/application/pdf/meinert_enterprises.pdf
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Created at 21/04/2016 11:45 by Roberto Felix
Last modified at 11/05/2022 02:21 by Nicholas Hamp-Adams
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