Post Foods Consumer Scam

08/25/2015

Is deceptive labelling deceiving you? The other morning when I sat down to breakfast, I was absolutely floored (literally, not… Read More

Environmental Colonialism

08/18/2015

How environmental activists work to keep the poor, poor. Environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) loudly proclaim biotechnology and genetically modified (GM)… Read More

The Buzz on Bees

08/11/2015

Are Farm Chemical Harming Bee Populations? Over the past decade, there has been considerable discussion and debate about what is… Read More

Banking for Sustainable Food

08/04/2015

Weeds genomes may someday be how we feed a sustainable world "Svalbard seed vault IMG 8894" by Bjoertvedt - Own… Read More

Drone Farming

07/28/2015

Can efficiencies increase if we farm from the sky? This past spring the US Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance for the… Read More

Hybridization, breeding and hybrid cultivars

07/21/2015

By: Graham Scoles, Ph.D., PAg Hybridization Hybridization refers to the natural or deliberate pollination between two plants.  It occurs all… Read More

Four diverse views of the bioeconomy

07/14/2015

This past June we at SAIFood (Stuart & Savannah) travelled to Italy for the 19th International Consortium for Applied Bioeconomy… Read More

Potential Solution to Managing Asynchronous Approvals

07/07/2015

Urgent need to address a $1 billion/year problem One challenge for agriculture in the past few years has been the… Read More

Framing Effect in Psychology and Economics

06/30/2015

Understanding How & Why People Make The Decisions They Do Individuals communicate based on a lifetime of experiences. Communications are… Read More

Winners and Losers from GM Technologies and the Policy Response in the Organic Good Market

06/24/2015

Our very own Stuart Smyth of SAIFood and his colleagues of the University of Saskatchewan, William Kerr & Peter Phillips,… Read More