Our Tasty Brains
Could our brains be wired for unhealthy food choices? Last fall, I attended a behavioural economics conference in Denmark, where guest speaker Antonio Rangel, a …
The Cost of Regulatory Delays on Agriculture Innovations
How Political Interference is Jeopardizing Agriculture Research in Developing Countries In Canada, the regulatory approval of all new crop varieties is done using science as …
The Changing Nature of Funding University Research
The Important Role Private Company Funding Plays Thirty years ago, university research was funded primarily through federal and provincial government grants. This research was frequently …
Post Foods Consumer Scam
Is deceptive labelling deceiving you? The other morning when I sat down to breakfast, I was absolutely floored (literally, not physically!) by Post Foods’ deliberate …
Environmental Colonialism
How environmental activists work to keep the poor, poor. Environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) loudly proclaim biotechnology and genetically modified (GM) crops provide no benefits. These …
The Buzz on Bees
Are Farm Chemical Harming Bee Populations? Over the past decade, there has been considerable discussion and debate about what is responsible for the decrease in …
Banking for Sustainable Food
Weeds genomes may someday be how we feed a sustainable world “Svalbard seed vault IMG 8894” by Bjoertvedt – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA …
Drone Farming
Can efficiencies increase if we farm from the sky? This past spring the US Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance for the use of drones for agriculture …
Hybridization, breeding and hybrid cultivars
By: Graham Scoles, Ph.D., PAg Hybridization Hybridization refers to the natural or deliberate pollination between two plants. It occurs all the time in the wild …
Four diverse views of the bioeconomy
This past June we at SAIFood (Stuart & Savannah) travelled to Italy for the 19th International Consortium for Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR) conference. The conference …