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 …
Potential Solution to Managing Asynchronous Approvals
Urgent need to address a $1 billion/year problem One challenge for agriculture in the past few years has been the variation in approvals times of …
Framing Effect in Psychology and Economics
Understanding How & Why People Make The Decisions They DoIndividuals communicate based on a lifetime of experiences. Communications are ‘framed’ by an individual’s positive or …
Winners and Losers from GM Technologies and the Policy Response in the Organic Good Market
Our very own Stuart Smyth of SAIFood and his colleagues of the University of Saskatchewan, William Kerr & Peter Phillips, have just been published in …
Improving Plant Variety Regulations
Can America and Canada’s Plant Regulatory Systems Become One System? Canada and the United States are each other’s largest trading partners. Of all the …