Guiding Principles Major activities Information generated Integration into

Guiding Principles Major activities Information generated Integration into Network • Community-engaged research focussing on producers at the farm level • Agroecological (AE) assessment and farm process development for economic, and environmental improvement and resiliency • Interdisciplinary, innovative, imaginative and visionary • Inform practice and policy, expand knowledge and increase capacity Farm survey On-farm evaluation • AE assessment • Direct farm investigation and surveys • Agroecological farm practices vs “business as usual” farm practices -How do AE practices -Identify patterns -Establish AE baseline affect economic, environmental and farmer AE production levels? literacy -Patterns identified inform and shape network -Early in network life -On-farm AE practices effect on indicators -Tradeoffs among indicators Manipulation for resiliency testing • Test and improve resiliency of farm system through AE practice -Farm response to various stresses -Stress effects on multiple indicators -Analysis of multiple indicator responses -Optimization models across network

Regional scale ~300 farms across Prairies: range in farming practices Farm scale 40 farms: BAU vs agroecologically intensive farms 9 farm fields: Field experiment Field scale • • Models of multiple indicator responses Optimize across network to improve agroecosystem design for resiliency Regional Assessment Assess farming practices and key economic/ environmental indicators through on farm investigation and surveys On-farm indicator evaluation Assess sustainability and resiliency using multiple indicators measured along continuum of conventional to agro-ecological farms Experimental manipulations Test stability and resiliency to flood/ drought stressors