Caring For Our Land and Food

This microcredential will teach you how to minimize your environmental impact through sustainable practices. Additionally, you’ll explore food sovereignty, learning how it enables communities to produce higher-quality food, increase the value of their crops, and make local decisions that positively impact both people and the environment.

The microcredential is specifically designed to train Indigenous producers in Northern Saskatchewan. The design and delivery will support, acknowledge, and respect the learners’ needs and time. To meet the needs of students, the online course has been designed to be user friendly, highly engaging, and interactive. Producers from all areas of Canada will benefit from taking the course.

Learning Outcomes

• Describe the impact we have on our environment
• Discuss the methods and practices we already use or could adopt to become a better steward of our land
• Explain the principles of food sovereignty and interpret how they can change our food quality and production
• Discuss how to work together with producers to create local food systems and set up closed loop food supply chains locally

Assessment

• The learner must achieve a minimum score of 80% on the final assessment to receive the badge.

Food sovereignty and sustainable agricultural practices go hand in hand. Understanding the environmental impact and working to reduce that impact will assist in sustaining a better food supply chain, making good decisions regarding our environment and ecological systems, and lowering our carbon footprint in the food production industry. This micro-credential explores how we can reduce our impact on the environment and ecological systems with proper farming practices. It also explores what food sovereignty means and how to work together to make better food, increase the value of the food we grow, and make decisions locally that better suit the environment:

• Canada’s Climate Action Plan
• Partnership with Indigenous People- recognizing the unique realities, needs, and priorities of Indigenous peoples, advancing early and meaningful engagement, advancing co-development and other collaborative approaches to find solutions, and supporting
• Indigenous approaches and ways of doing
• Forestry, agriculture, and waste
• Land management practices
• Government leadership
• Federal, provincial, and territorial governments will be leaders in sustainable, low-emission practices that support the goals of clean growth and address climate change
• Accessible food systems