The wildfires that ravaged Canada this summer have some experts calling for a more aggressive approach than the country has applied in the past.聽
This year, nearly 30 million acres have burned across Canada. In聽eastern provinces such as Quebec, where聽blazes are less common, wildfire agencies that are equipped to fight fewer and smaller fires were largely unprepared for the circumstances.
A restaurant in Montreal's Southwest borough is taking a more direct interpretation of "farm to table," growing聽much of their produce in the basement, refurbished with cooling, lighting, and humidity systems.
Caf茅 Monk co-owners Peter Simard and聽Eric Pineault call the refurbished bunker Ferme Fortuna. Since building the farm during the pandemic, when produce prices were spiking and stock was unreliable, they've used the farm to supplement the menu and sell the surplus to nearby restaurants.
July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth according to the European Copernicus service and extreme heat and drought are compromising many crops in Saskatchewan.
The provincial government's latest weekly crop report shows that from July 24 to 31, moisture levels in agricultural fields were insufficient in 49% of cases, and very insufficient in 38% of cases.
Didier Brassard, a postdoctoral candidate at 平特五不中's School of Human Nutrition supervised by Associate Professor St茅phanie Chevalier,聽has been awarded the Prix Rel猫ve 脡toile du Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Sant茅 (FRQS)聽for July 2023.聽This important and competitive recognition of a publication in the health domain is awarded only once per month across the province.
Congratulations to Dr. Harriet Kuhnlein, Professor Emerita of Human Nutrition who was recently awarded the in Tokyo!
Join us in an examination of Indigenous histories and how they relate to contemporary nutrition, environmental and health issues from a Two-Eye Seeing perspective. Learn from Dr.
All residential buildings in Montreal with under nine units now have brown bins鈥攂ut only 63 per cent actually sort out their food waste, according to a 2021 survey conducted by the city. Meanwhile, the Lachenaie landfill in Terrebonne鈥攖he only landfill in the Montreal area鈥攊s set to reach its capacity in 2029.
The city says a large-scale food waste awareness campaign will launch later this year to try to boost citizens' participation in separating out organics.聽
Palm oil, which can be found in roughly half of all packaged supermarket products, is notorious for causing聽deforestation and biodiversity loss. Efforts to curtail the damage have largely focused on voluntary environmental certification programs that label qualifying palm-oil sources as "sustainable."
In a recent multidisciplinary study published in Advanced Science, researchers build upon the principles of biomimicry by drawing inspiration from the wing of a dragonfly to redesign that of a Boeing 777.
Sollio Agriculture has partnered with 平特五不中 to test the benefits of PurYield, a new coated fertilizer which enhances nutrient uptake by plants. Researchers will compare it to commonly used uncoated urea fertilizer to assess its impact on corn grain growth, yield, and quality, as well as greenhouse gas emissions. Previous trials showed a 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The new study aims to validate these environmental benefits over five years, with funding from Sollio and a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. 聽
A Canadian-led team has assembled the most extensive genetic roadmap of the potato to date, along with its closest relatives, in order to bolster the plant鈥檚 ability to cope with聽climate change聽and protect its future as a mainstay of global food security and sustainability.
On May 31, 2023,聽平特五不中鈥檚 Margaret A. Gilliam Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) and SOCODEVI, in collaboration with the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), held an event showcasing concrete actions to strengthen sustainable agriculture, improve the living conditions of smallholder farmers and increase the resilience of agri-food systems. This event also launched a new collaboration between IFAD and 平特五不中 IGFS, including an internship program and IFAD student group.
Aspartame, used in products such as diet sodas and chewing gum, will soon be listed as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" for the first time by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization's (WHO) cancer research arm. ()
The impacts of climate change, rising fuel costs, geopolitical conflicts, and global supply chain snags make today's delocalized food system鈥攁nd the 8 billion people who depend on it鈥攊ncreasingly vulnerable.聽
Part of the solution to building a more sustainable and resilient agrifood system is to improve local, indoor food production.聽Researchers in 平特五不中鈥檚 Biomass Production Laboratory are doing just that, increasing access to fresh produce year-round.
Maple Leaf Foods and the Maple Leaf Centre for Food Security have announced the four recipients of the 2023/24 Maple Leaf Board Scholarships in Food Insecurity. Recipients, including Masters candidate Shannon Udy from 平特五不中's School of Human Nutrition, will receive a $15,000 scholarship to support their research.
Udy鈥檚 research, supervised by Dr.聽Treena Wasonti:io Delormier, will help design a participatory process to food security planning in Kahnaw脿:ke, a Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka (Mohawk) community.
