Trade-Offs Between Food Production and Biodiversity
In a perfect world, food production would have no impact or cost on the environment or biodiversity. However, this world only exists in fairytales and …
Innovation Adoption Lags in Agriculture
Every innovative product of technology that is commercialized eventually reaches what is known as “full adoption”. This is the point at which the peak percentage …
Food System Transformations
Calls for transforming food systems have grown over the past several years. International governance organizations, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), have issued …
The Conflict Between the Sustainable Development Goals and Environmental Activists
At the end of the 20th century, the United Nations (UN) launched the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs were a list of eight Goals with a 2015 …
Food Transportation Needs to be an Essential Service
As Canadian rail transportation spiralled downward to a complete halt in the latter part of August, the inability to move any products by rail in …
The Launch of Another Academic Year
The hallways in buildings across campus have largely been silent over the past 4 months, but the bustle of students returns this week. Some students …
Highlights of the ICABR’s 28th Conference
From June 11-14, I had the pleasure of attending the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR) Conference. This conference is the premiere conference on …
Grocery Store Price Exposé
Two years ago, food price inflation was rampant, with monthly year-over-year increases in excess of 10%. Statistics Canada’s Consumer Price Index for March 2024 indicated …
Assessing Classroom Use of Artificial Intelligence Chat GPT
Lets Chat (GPT) about Artificial Intelligence Integration in the Classroom Universities are in near states of hysteria about how to deal with artificial intelligence (AI) …
The Longer GM Crops are Produced, the Greater the Environmental Benefits
When genetically modified (GM) crops were initially commercialized in the mid to late 1990s, many critics of the new technology predicted the benefits would be …