Don’t Skip the Cranberries
Nestled amongst our Thanksgiving classics is Canada’s second most-valuable fruit: the cranberry. It is easy to overlook the cranberry as merely seasonal. Sure, they’re tart …
AG-ACt: Bridging Research and Practice for Climate-Smart Agriculture
Michelle Stringer AG-ACt Project Coordinator (University of Guelph) As the agri-food sector grapples with the impacts of climate change, innovative and sustainable solutions are essential …
DNA Series: Understanding the code of life
The DNA Series: Hello everyone, this is going to be a series of blog posts. Stay tuned so you don’t lose a single one! For …
Nutrition North Canada: How We Got Here
In Canada’s North, the price of a single bag of groceries can rival a week’s rent in the South. Nutrition North Canada (NNC), launched in 2011, was meant to bridge this gap by making healthy food more affordable in remote communities. But more than a decade later, questions remain: is the program truly addressing food insecurity, or are systemic challenges, like cultural responsiveness, transportation barriers, and outdated policy frameworks, still leaving Northern families behind?
The Summer Fruit Was Just Fine
An Okanagan update following the 2024 BC Tree Fruits Cooperative closure About a year ago, I took the opportunity to cry out the end of …
R&D Investments Lower Farming and Food Production Risks
Cutting ag R&D puts our future harvests at risk. Declining investment means slower innovation, longer adoption times & higher food prices. Canada can’t afford this. Check out more of what Stuart has to say on the topic…. #AgInnovation #FoodSecurity
Cultivating Resilience: Building Climate-Smart Food Systems Together
The Agricultural Genomics Action Centre (AG-ACt) is proud to co-host the upcoming Cultivating Resilience Summit: Advancing Climate-Smart Agri-Food on October 27–28, 2025 in Vancouver, alongside …
Gene Editing’s Contribution to Increasing Crop Yields
Benefits from Green Revolution Innovations Food insecurity has regrettably been a consistent global challenge, with the number of people affected by hunger consistently rising since …
Welcome Luíza
It is a pleasure to formally announce the newest addition to the SAIFood Team, Dr. Luíza Favaratto! We have been lucky enough to have Luíza …
Choices, Choices, Choices: Decisions Throughout the Growing Season
For Prairie farmers, the decisions involved in growing a crop do not end once the crop type and variety have been chosen and the seed …