Top Scientists Chastise Greenpeace
100+ Nobel Laureates call for an end to GM crop protesting The Nobel Prize was established upon the death of scientist and inventor, Alfred Nobel, …
Never let facts stand in the way of a good story
Woodward or Bernstein, he is not! Sean Previl, a journalist with the Halifax Chronicle Herald, has shown that he is not one to let facts …
Not Such a Fun Guy, These Fungi
Plant diseases having increasingly devastating effects In June I was fortunate enough to attend a captivatingly interesting conference organized by the University of Saskatchewan’s Global …
Making ¢’s of Meat Prices
Why is steak more expensive than chicken? We know that it costs money to produce the items we rely on daily. Contrary to this knowledge, …
GM Crops Provide $150 Billion in Global Benefits
Feeding an additional 2-5 billion people over the coming 30 years is going to challenge every single aspect of agriculture and food production. While some …
Bob Dylan Called It, Times Are a Changing
The Prairie Climate Centre presenting you with timely news on your regional climate Climate change is all around us. Even though this is well-known, planning …
The Pulse on Food and Nutrition Innovation in Southern Ethiopia
International effort to provide Ethiopia with food security through pulses Pulses are dry edible seeds, relatively inexpensive to produce and purchase, which are chalked full …
The Skinny on Future Canadian Food Label Changes
SAIFood is always concerned about the use of food labels and what message they convey to consumers. The label which can be the most confusing …
British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve
To what extent should we support ARL? By Lindsay Pollard, University of Saskatchewan student British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) was put into place in …
National Academy of Science’s GM Crop Consensus
Science is the standard that has been used for decades to find solutions, innovate and improve efficiencies, but increasingly, society is less certain about science …