Participants

Phase One - 2004

Canada

Demonstration Tour

Samy Watson, Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Dr. Bruce Archibald, Assistant Deputy Minister, AAFC
Ken McCready, Regional Director, AAFC

Workshop Participants

Carl Neggers - Chair
Alan Cessna and Bruce Junkins (speakers) - Session A: How do we measure and monitor the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Rick Butts (speaker) - Session B: What are the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Glen Shaw (speaker) - Session C: What are the on-farm practices that we use to reduce the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Michele Brenning (speaker) - Session D: What can governments do to help reduce the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Louise Bissonnette (organizer/observer)
Tim Marta (organizer/observer)
Patrick Cherneski (observer/rapporteur)
Patricia Story (observer/rapporteur)
Peggy Burleigh (administrative help)

Canadian Producer Organization Representatives

Noreen Ambrose (Cows and Fish) and Dixon Hammon (Farmer/Producer) - Session E: What can our farmer organizations do to help reduce the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Doug McKell - Soil Conservation Council of Canada (observer)

United States

Demonstration Tour

Jim Moseley, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture
Dawn Riley, Executive Assistant
James Holst, Security for Deputy Secretary Moseley
Felicia Lowe, Security for Deputy Secretary Moseley

Workshop Participants

Jean-Marie Peltier, Environmental Protection Agency (speaker) - Session A: How do we measure and monitor the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Mike O'Neill, USDA, Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (speaker) - Session B: What are the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Tom Christensen, USDA, Natural Resource Conservation Service and(speakers) - Session C: What are the on-farm practices that we use to reduce the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Marc Ribaudo, USDA, Economic Research Service (speaker) - Session D: What can governments do to help reduce the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Bill Richards, Farmer - Session E: What can our farmer organizations do to help reduce the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Adela Backiel, USDA, Office of the Chief Economist - (observer)
Ken Hinga, USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service - (observer/rapporteur)

Mexico

Ms. Lisette Lopez Gonzalez, Agricultural Minister of Mexico to Canada, Embassy of Mexico to Canada

North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Tim Whitehouse

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

Dr. Gertjam Beekman

Invited Speaker

Roberto Pieretti, President, Confederation of American Associations for the Production of Sustainable Agriculture (CAAPAS)

The Prairie Water Policy Symposium (PWPS)

The Prairie Water Policy Symposium (PWPS) was hosted by IISD on September 22-23, 2005, in Winnipeg, at the forks of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. This event brought together approximately 100 policy-makers, researchers and scientists from across the country. Symposium presentations are available in Real video format as well as PowerPoint.

The PWPS discussions and recommendations evolved into our current explorations into sustainable water resources management using a “Soft Paths” approach in Manitoba, and research into institutional capacity frameworks for integrated water resources management and linkages to payments for ecosystem services on the Prairies.

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