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PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY

Consider what population growth has to do with our ability to feed a growing population. Watch this 2023 overview of Canada’s population growth from Statistics Canada.

APPLYING TECHNOLOGIES

Learn about the technology involved and benefits to communities of the first net zero barn in Alberta and Canada in this video from the Egg Farmers of Alberta.

AGRICULTURE HISTORIES

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to find out how farm and farming identities have changed over time.

AGRICULTURE HISTORIES

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to learn about the impact that changing technologies have had on farming in Alberta over time. 

CLIMATE SMART 

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview for a quick overview of some of the impacts of climate change.

FAMILY FARMS

The United Nations has declared 2019 to 2028 the Decade of Family Farming. This UN video highlights what it means to be a family farmer and how family farms ensure food security, improve livelihoods, better manage natural resources, protect the environment and achieve sustainable development, particularly in rural areas. Find out more by clicking here

APPLYING TECHNOLOGIES

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to explore how genetics plays a role on an Alberta dairy farm.

UNDERSTANDING SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to hear directly from Alberta farmers how supply management works and can benefit both farmers and consumers. 

PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to hear how farmers in Alberta approach sustainability on their farms.

FAMILY FARMS        UNDERSTANDING SUPPLY MANAGEMENT 

The video from Alberta Chicken Producers shares some perspectives from Alberta family chicken farmers, focusing on the values that are important to these farmers.

AGRICULTURE HISTORIES

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to consider some ways that urbanization affects agriculture.

APPLYING TECHNOLOGIES

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to learn about a centre pivot irrigation system used by this Alberta farmer. 

UNDERSTANDING AGRICULTURE

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to learn why agriculture is about more than just farming.

FAMILY FARMS         THE FOOD SYSTEM        ON THE FARM

This video from Alberta Farm Animal Care explores what happens on a hatching egg farm. It talks about the place of hatching egg farms in the food supply chain.  

FAMILY FARMS         ON THE FARM 

Watch this video from Alberta Farm Animal Care to find out what happens on a family farm. Heini also talks about what is involved in ensuring that farm animals are well looked after and healthy.

APPLYING TECHNOLOGIES GROWING FOOD 

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to find out more about the role of innovation and the technologies that are used to produce healthier and more sustainable food crops.

PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY

Check out this trailer about a documentary movie called Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story, which deals with the issue of waste from farms, through retail and all the way to the back of the filmmaker’s own fridges.

UNDERSTANDING AGRICULTURE

This video, produced by Alberta Treasury Branches as a tribute to the diversity of Alberta farmers, provides some facts and statistics about farms and food production on Alberta farms. Use this video to launch your learning in any project AGRICULTURE topic by clicking here.

Long Love this Land video produced by Alberta Treasury Branches (ATB) Financial and used with permission and thanks. Video produced in March 2018. Facts may have changed since then. No other use, distribution  or reproduction of this video is permitted. 

GROWING FOOD 

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to understand more about some of the practices that Alberta farmers can use to grow healthy crops.

THE FOOD SYSTEM        ON THE FARM

The Canadian egg industry’s Animal Care Program ensures that hens have a safe, healthy and comfortable living environment. Find out about guidelines for space, water, feed, lighting, air circulation, hen handling and more in this video from Egg Farmers of Canada.

 

PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to find out how two Alberta farmers address sustainability.

GROWING FOOD 

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to learn about the diversity of plants that are grown in Alberta for food. 

PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY GROWING FOOD

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to find out about the practices that two Alberta farmers use to make decisions about managing bugs and weeds. 

PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to learn about diversity and the relationship between natural and farm environments on two Alberta farms.

PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to find out why two Alberta farmers use crop rotation to protect soil diversity. 

PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY

Watch this video from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to focus on innovation and learn about the work done to reduce methane emissions through changed to dairy cow nutrition at the Sherbrooke Dairy and Swine Research and Development Centre in Quebec.

UNDERSTANDING SUPPLY MANAGEMENT 

Find an overview of supply management, including food safety’s role in the food supply system, from the Egg Farmers of Canada.   

UNDERSTANDING SUPPLY MANAGEMENT      ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURE

Get facts about the connections between trade, economics and the supply management system from Alberta Chicken Producers.   

UNDERSTANDING AGRICULTURE GROWING FOOD 

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to find out about the role that research and science plays in seed and plant diversity.

PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to learn the importance of water and carbon cycles on two Alberta farms. 

GROWING FOOD CLIMATE SMART

Watch this original project AGRICULTURE video interview to find out how farming practices respond to the challenges of changing weather. 

ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURE  

This video from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada shares facts and statistics about the trade and economic relationship between Canada and the United States.

UNDERSTANDING SUPPLY MANAGEMENT 

This video provides a graphic overview of the supply management system.

UNDERSTANDING SUPPLY MANAGEMENT 

Find a quick overview of what supply management means to dairy farms in Canada in this video from Alberta Milk.

PERSPECTIVES ON SUSTAINABILITY

The term “organic” refers to a food production method. Find information on organic and conventional milk production in this video from Alberta Milk.

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