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From Soil to Stream: Credit Pathways for Regenerative Food Systems in the Okanagan Watershed

By identifying opportunities, barriers, and trade-offs in financing nature-based solutions at the watershed scale, this project lays the groundwork for innovative funding strategies that align economic activity with ecological and social well-being. The findings will contribute to broader discussions on community-centered watershed resilience, biocultural credit systems and nature-based solutions (NbS) financing, and climate adaptation, supporting further collaboration and implementation efforts with partners in the Okanagan watershed.

Project Status: Active

Funding Support: 51社区黑料Climate Innovation Seed Funds (2025): Pollinator Award

Project Leads: Tatum Askew, Graduate Student, SFU's Resource and Environmental Management

Co-creation Partners

  • Clifford Atleo, Associate Professor, SFU's Resource & Environmental Management
  • ACT - Action on Climate Team, Simon Fraser Unviersity
  • Salmon Returns

Expected Outcomes

A credit framework that incentivizes environmental stewardship enables the conservation and restoration of ecosystems while reducing carbon emissions at a system-wide scale. Regenerative agriculture enhances soil health, biodiversity, water quality and retention, and food security while reducing emissions. Salmon habitat restoration revitalizes ecosystems, improves water quality, sequesters carbon, increases biodiversity, and sustains fish populations vital for Indigenous food sovereignty. Regenerative agriculture and salmon habitat restoration both contribute to sustaining the availability and nutritional quality of food in the watershed for future generations.

The outcome of this project is to build on existing financing mechanisms for NbS and co-develop a place-based approach to support continual regeneration of the ecological health of the Okanagan watershed.

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