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> ## Farming
>> Problems
>> - ask ms lagis
>> 1. Loss of Farmland in Ontario
>> - Description
>> - urban expanision is taking farmland away
>> - Advantages/Attempts
>> - Greenbelt act and GTA growth plan will protect farmland in Southern Ontario
>> - Disadvantages/Next Steps
>> - Protect forms or else Cnadaians will have a food crisis, where we run out of agricultural products
>> - Solutions
>> - Create "smart" communities
>> - Densely packed fmarland, using up less space
>> 2. Decline of the Family Farm and Growth of Agribusiness
>> - Description
>> - Less family farms, more agribusiness (large companies)
>> - Better technology and smaller farms
>> - Advantages/Attempts
>> - More food produced faster
>> - Less soil erosion
>> - Disadvantages/Next Steps
>> - Pollution
>> - Broken realtionship between farmer and machine
>> - More GMOs
>> - Solution
>> - Support more sustainable farmers
>> - Be aware
>> - Use corporate farms with family farm methods
>> 3. Sustainable Agriculture
>> - Description
>> - Unsustainable agriculutre damages environment too much
>> - manure leakage
>> - Chemicals
>> - Soil pollution
>> - Advantages/Attempts
>> - Less damage to environment
>> - Less air, water, and soil production
>> - Fewer diseases and chemicals
>> - Disadvantages/Next steps
>> - Chemical leakage in soil
>> - Contributes to global warming and GHGs
>> - Water, air and soil contamination
>> - Solutions
>> - Have livestock facilities
>> - Nutrients management
>> - Be energy efficient
>> 4. Organic Farming
>> - Description
>> - Organic foods are being replaced by chemicals, fertilizers, antibiotics, animal cloning, and genetic modification
>> - Advantages/Attempts
>> - Many people want to buy organic food productsfree of chemicals pesticides
>> - People like to try new products
>> - Some like to ensure products taste, concerns for the environment, and GMO prevention in foods
>> - Disadvantage/Next Steps
>> - Expensive
>> - Labour-costly
>> - Skills are needed
>> - needs time to grow crops or livestoc naturally
>> - Solutions
>> - Organic farming may increase in the future becuase people may see good in it
>> - May be just a trend
>> - May decrease due to the fact that it may be expensive and technology may be increasing
>> 5. Mad Cow Disease (BSE)
>> - Description
>> - Neurological disease
>> - Creates microscopic holes in the brain of affected cattle
>> - Gives brain spongy apperanace
>> - Spread by cattle feed from dead cows
>> - Disadvantages
>> - Could heavily affect world trade due to infected meat
>> - Solutions
>> - Canada accepts beeef from places that can consider and control BSE
>> - CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) banned the use of protein products from cattle, including brain, animal feed and fertilizers
>> 6. GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)
>> - Description
>> - Impacts the environment
>> -
>> ### ```Intensive``` v.s ```Extensive```
>>>|Type|Definition|
>>>|:---|:---------|
>>>|```Intensize```|```Large amounts``` of ```labour, machinery and fertilizers``` used on ```small``` farms. ```High yields``` per hectare
>>>|```Extensive```|```Small amounts``` of ```labour, machinery, and fertilizers used on ```large``` farms. ```Small yeilds``` per hectare
>>>|```Intensize```|```Large amounts``` of ```labour, machinery and fertilizers``` used on ```small``` farms. ```High yields``` per hectare|
>>>|```Extensive```|```Small amounts``` of ```labour, machinery, and fertilizers used on ```large``` farms. ```Small yeilds``` per hectare|
> ## Forestry
>> Problems