posted May 2, 2019 | closing May 24, 2019
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Request for Proposals: Delta’s Future Agricultural Water Supply & Demand (extended)
The Delta Farmers Institute (DFI) is seeking proposals for a contractor to work with local producers, City of Delta, and industry groups to assess the current and future capacity of Delta’s agricultural water supply. The successful proponent will be required to assess both the City of Delta managed surface water supply system and the Metro Vancouver drinking water supply under future climate demand and supply conditions. An additional element will include a high level feasibility of potential system improvements.
This project includes:
- Reviewing existing reports, studies and community knowledge of the water supply system’s current and projected capacity;
- Assessing the impacts of climate change and system expansion on overall system demand and supply; and
- Assessing the feasibility of major system enhancements and identifying potential upgrades or management strategies to improve capacity.
The project fulfills a priority action of the Delta Adaptation Strategies and will enhance the ability of producers in Delta to adapt to the impacts of climate change. All work will be overseen by a committee that includes representatives from DFI, the BC Agriculture & Food Climate Action Initiative (CAI), the City of Delta and the BC Ministry of Agriculture.
The successful contractor will have a minimum of three years of direct experience with conducting similar projects with experience including background scans and research, data compilation and analysis, consultation and report writing. A professional designation of P.Ag and P.Eng are assets.
View the PDF: Request for Proposals – Delta’s Future Agricultural Water Supply & Demand (closes May 24, 2019)
posted Jan 15, 2019
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BC Farm & Ranch Wildfire Preparedness Workshops
photo courtesy Province of BC
Producers, wildfire response and emergency personnel, and local government representatives are invited to attend agriculture and wildfire risk reduction workshops taking place throughout the province from January through March 2019.
Producers will gain vital knowledge that will help them reduce their risk from the climate change impacts of frequent and higher intensity wildfires.
They will also:
- connect with local wildfire and emergency response personnel and with local government representatives responsible for wildfire and emergency planning;
- learn local wildfire behaviour, threat and history and how to apply lessons learned to structural protection; and
- develop customized wildfire preparedness plans.
The free workshops are six hours, and lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Prior to attending a workshop, please familiarize yourself with:
For the complete list of dates, times and locations, and to register, visit our Eventbrite page.
If you have any questions, please email agwildfireworkshops@gmail.com.
posted Jan 2, 2019 | closing Jan 25, 2019
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Request for Proposals: Okanagan Wildfire Pre-Season Communications & Information Exchange Pilot Project
photo courtesy BC Ministry of Transportation
The Southern Interior Stockmen’s Association (SISA) is seeking proposals for a contractor to work with local producer associations, the Regional District of the Okanagan Similkameen (RDOS) and other local partners to develop and pilot a wildfire communications protocol to guide communications between the Regional District and their agricultural residents during the wildfire season.
The successful proponent will be required to plan and host a series of information exchange meetings (8 total) to strengthen relationships between agricultural groups and wildfire response agencies that will support a shift to collaborative and proactive wildfire communication. These information exchanges will be used to provide clear, accurate and agriculturally focused information to producers about wildfire risk and wildfire response processes/procedures and to develop and implement a wildfire communications protocol for RDOS.
This project includes:
- Development of materials to support pre-season and post-season communication meetings
- Development and implementation of a wildfire communications protocol customized for the Regional District Okanagan Similkameen (developed with input from stakeholders and agricultural producers)
- Development and implementation of an outreach strategy (to invite representatives from key agricultural organizations [within RDOS] to meeting)
- Planning and hosting of pre-season information exchange meetings (4 meetings: 2 locations each year) and post-season communication debrief meetings (4 meetings: 2 locations each year)
- Development of a shareable resource(s) (e.g., bulletin and/or other resources to highlight key information) to circulate broadly to all producers in RDOS
- Preparation of a Summary report (including sample resources that can be used by other Regional Districts to develop their own wildfire communications protocol)
This project fulfills a priority action of the Okangan Adaptation Strategies and will enhance the ability of producers in the Okanagan to adapt to the impacts of climate change. All work will be overseen by a committee that includes representatives from SISA, the BC Agriculture & Food Climate Action Committee (CAI), RDOS, the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development and the BC Ministry of Agriculture.
The successful contractor will have a minimum of 3 years experience with wildfire issues, and at least one team member will have extensive experience with supporting collaboration, workshop/process design and small group facilitation. At least one team member with experience developing and implementing strategies and processes to improve communication flows.
The contract runs from February 2019 to November 2020.
View the PDF: Request for Proposals – Okanagan Wildfire Pre-Season Communications & Information Exchange Pilot Project (closes Jan 25, 2019)