PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The Professional Development (PD) Program requires registered agrologists to maintain and improve their professional competencies by completing continuing professional development activities. The PD Program aids the BCIA in protecting the public interest by ensuring registrants continue to remain up to date as agrology professionals.

REQUIREMENTS

Requirements for registrants are set out in the Professional Development (PD) Guidelines.

Participation in the PD Program is mandatory for all practicing and articling registrants, including those on leave.

  • Minimum points/hours: registrants must complete 30 PD hours annually and 125 PD hours over a three year reporting period (there is reduced requirement for those registered as on leave).
  • PD categories: Eligible activities are defined by categories in the PD Guidelines.
  • Claimable points: minimum and maximum annual claimable points per activity and category are set out in the PD Guidelines.
  • Indigenous Peoples: Registrants must complete a minimum of 6 PD hours of foundational learning about Indigenous Peoples.
  • Annual reporting: Registrants must submit annual records of PD activities by January 15th of each year in their profile under PD Report.
SUGGESTED PD ACTIVITIES and OTHER RESOURCES:

COURSES AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES >

Find below a listing of courses and training opportunities provided by other organizations. Check Events for additional opportunities.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RESOURCES >

1. Important Resources

2. Indigenous Corporate Training - Resource

3. Indigenous Cultural Safety Collaborative Learning Series - Webinars

4. Indigenous Cultural Training Competency Test

6. Cultural Resource Training Program

  • The Cultural Resource Monitor (CRM) training program provides course participants with valuable applied field and research skills and experience in the expanding field of cultural resource management.

8. Indigenous Engagement in Mining - a publication by Natural Resource Canada

9. United Nations Declaration on Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

  • The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was adopted by the General Assembly on Thursday, 13 September 2007. Today the Declaration is the most comprehensive international instrument on the rights of indigenous peoples. It establishes a universal framework of minimum standards for the survival, dignity, and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the world and it elaborates on existing human rights standards and fundamental freedoms as they apply to the specific situation of indigenous peoples.

10. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

  • To redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has created a Call to Action document. Website

11. Resources on First Nations Pronunciations

12. Education and First Nations - University of British Columbia

13. KAIROS Blanket Exercise experiential workshop

The KAIROS Blanket Exercise program is a unique, participatory history lesson, developed in collaboration with Indigenous elders, knowledge keepers and educators. It fosters truth, understanding, respect and reconciliation among Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous people.

14. Reconciliation Canada

Programs and initiatives inspiring positive change in communities throughout Canada.

15. Aboriginal Consultation/Negotiating a Consultation Agreement

This two-day workshop is designed to provide practical solutions to consulting and negotiation with Indigenous Peoples.

Mâwandônan Consulting  https://www.mawandonanconsulting.com/on-line-workshops

16. Tea Creek Documentary 

  Tells the story of an Indigenous-led farming initiative in northern British Columbia that aims to foster a deeper connection between Indigenous communities and their land, through the growing, harvesting, and sharing of foo

  Tea Creek - DOXA Trailer  (full 75 minute film available on CBC Gem Absolutely Canadian S24).

CLIMATE CHANGE RESOURCES >

1. Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT):  ACT workshops on professionals and low carbon resilience. The results of all three workshops have been synthesized into a summary report with findings on the federal, provincial and local levels.

2. Climate & Agriculture Initiative BC has four YouTube Videos:

3. Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation: Micro-Certificate Program - University of British Columbia

4. BC Agricultural Climate Adaptation Research Network Video Series:

5. BC Agriculture and Food Climate Action Initiative - tools and resources to enhance agricultural ability to adapt to climate change.

6. Retooling for Climate Change: a website on climate change adaptation, with tools and resources on climate change for BC local governments, First Nations and the natural resource sectors.

SOILS AND ENVIRONMENT RESOURCES >

 

AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES >

ALC Policy - Criteria for Agricultural Capability Assessments

  • This policy is intended to provide information for agrologists submitting agricultural capability assessment reports as part of an exclusion, subdivision, non-farm use application, or as required through a compliance and enforcement action to ensure that they: 1) are providing sufficient information and evidence to support their assessment; 2) are qualified to complete this work, and 3) perform their work on the Reports as per the Code of Ethics of the British Columbia Institute of Agrologists. The submission of a report as part of an application is optional; however, one is recommended if the agricultural capability is the primary reason for the application. PDF 

You Tube Documentaries

Agriculture and Agri-business Sector, Discovery Tool

Agricultural Research Centres and Institutes

PROVINCIAL AGROLOGY INSTITUTES >

Agrology is a provincially regulated profession across Canada. Every province has its own legislation, regulatory body and registration requirements. Each provincial institute regulates its Registrants to ensure they provide the public with safe, competent and ethical practice.

*Agrologists have the privilege to request Transfer/Dual Registration with another agrology institute.

REGULATORY BODIES UNDER THE PGA >

LAND SUMMIT SOCIETY AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS >

BC Land Summit Society

BC Organizations

Canadian Organizations

GOVERNMENT BODIES >

1. British Columbia

2. Canada

3. Provinces and Territories

TOOLS FOR AGROLOGISTS >

Databases of Peer-Reviewed Research

Statistics Analysis Tools

Econometric Tools

Spatial Analysis Software and Tools

Other Tools

LABOUR MOBILITY/INTER-PROVINCIAL TRANSFER >

Labour Mobility & Inter-Provincial Transfers for Agrologists

The Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) reaffirms the labour mobility provisions and obligations established under the 1995 Agreement on Internal Trade.

Labour Mobility provisions of the CFTA apply to many self-regulated occupations in Canada, including Agrologists. Chapter 7 of the Agreement states that certified workers have to be recognized as qualified to work by a regulatory body in another province or territory which regulates that occupation, without having to go through significant additional training, work experience, examination, or assessment unless an exception has been posted.

Mobility serves the needs of the public by:

  • Assisting employers with a barrier-free allocation of Agrologist resources
  • Allowing Agrologists to expand or move their practice with little additional paperwork
  • Ensuring that customers and clients have easy access to qualified Agrologists

All agrology regulators in Canada are subject to mobility provisions and entitlements.

To qualify for mobility, Agrologists must:

  • Be a current registrant in good standing with a provincial regulator
  • Hold a professional designation and title of Agrologist
  • Further information about mobility provisions is available at Agrologists Canada

Transferring to Another Province

Agrology professionals may either want to practice in another province at the same time as they are practicing in their current jurisdiction or transfer their registration to another province.

More information about the transfer process is available at Agrologists Canada 

Read information about Transfer/Dual to BC OR Transfer/Dual out

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