Canada has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 30% below 2005 level by 2030. In 2017, Canada’s GHG emissions, in CO2 equivalents (CO2e) were 716 Mt – just 2% lower than 2005 emissions. Agriculture represented 8.4% (60 Mt CO2e) of Canada GHG emissions in 2017, 42% (25 Read more
One piece of advice I have received a number of times is to hire someone to do my interview transcriptions for me. However, this has never felt quite right for a couple of reasons: These are personal conversations and I don’t feel comfortable sharing them with just anyone – in Read more
Features of Interest in the BC Seed System Why is BC seed of interest? What follows are features of interest of seed production and community engagement in BC – items I can draw upon and build on in my research. Focus on vegetable seed While Canada is a major Read more
May 2018 While reading through a textbook on qualitative research recently (Patton, 2015), I came across a relatively benign-looking text box. My current reading subject was resilience, which is why this text box stood out. It was titled, Family Stories Support Resiliency. While it was “resiliency” that first caught my Read more
I recently noticed I spend a lot of time with my data. I sometimes think it’s a type of procrastination. As I review focus group notes and interview notes and document review notes I find myself exploring and writing about the process and sometimes feel like it is a strategy Read more
Interdisciplinarity is the combination of two or more scientific disciplines for the sake of joint research. While it can pose many challenges, it also presents opportunities – the most important thing I feel it offers is the use of multiple lenses, simultaneously and in an integrated way, to view a Read more
In my first blog post I talked about a number of topics including how to define sustainability. And thanks to the holidays I was able to clear a bit of head space to think a bit more about this post. The reason for defining sustainability, or the spectrum of sustainability, Read more
Introduction In my work in the field of agriculture I have found it useful to draw from other disciplines to help guide my work. Where I draw from often is the realm of what I call self-investigation. In short, by getting to better know myself I find I am Read more