Our Tasty Brains

09/15/2015

Could our brains be wired for unhealthy food choices? Last fall, I attended a behavioural economics conference in Denmark, where… Read More

The Cost of Regulatory Delays on Agriculture Innovations

09/07/2015

How Political Interference is Jeopardizing Agriculture Research in Developing Countries In Canada, the regulatory approval of all new crop varieties… Read More

The Changing Nature of Funding University Research

09/01/2015

The Important Role Private Company Funding Plays Thirty years ago, university research was funded primarily through federal and provincial government… Read More

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