Presented by Cedric MacLeod, MSC., PAg
The New Brunswick Living Lab has been co-developed by the New Brunswick agriculture industry and scientists at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to explore opportunities to advance climate smart beneficial management practices in New Brunswick.
Research sites are hosted on commercial scale production sites hosted by growers across the province. In additional to science exploration the project is collecting and analyzing cost of production data and working directly with industry representatives to understand barriers to adoption of the practices being studied and smart programs and policies that can be deployed to overcome the identified barriers.
This webinar will cover the logic, deployment processes, and early results of the socio-economic exploration efforts undertaken by the New Brunswick Living Lab team.
About the presenter
Born and raised in Carleton County, Cedric MacLeod developed an early love for agriculture with encouragement from family and pouring concrete with his father on farms throughout the Saint John River Valley. A desire to support soil health and conservation opportunities in the New Brunswick potato belt led Cedric towards the completion of a Bachelor of Science from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and a Master's Degree from the University of Manitoba, Department of Soil Science.
Early career experience immersed Cedric in the agricultural greenhouse gas management field where he has led or contributed to the development of numerous Canadian and international GHG quantification protocols in the livestock and cropping sectors.
With 20-years of experience in GHG management, Cedric was asked to lead the development of New Brunswick’s 5-year Living Lab project which will reach across New Brunswick with research and extension efforts to support growers in adopting Climate Smart management practices and enhance biodiversity on their operations.
Cedric operates a grass-fed beef and annual crop production operation in Centreville, New Bruns-wick with his wife Alanda, son Kalen and support from parents, siblings, nieces and nephews.
Support for this webinar
To support the mandate of Canada's Net-Zero Advisory Body related to research, this webinar is a part of "Characterizing barriers to and opportunities for achieving pro-climate behaviours in Atlantic Canada," a project undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada. Funding was provided through the Environmental Damages Fund’s Climate Action and Awareness Fund, administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada.