Bioeconomy and Food Systems Transformations
Summary of contribution to the UN’s Food Systems Summit On September 23rd, the United Nations held the first Food Systems Summit. This involved the creation …
Agriculture
The Social Costs of Spreading Misinformation
Mainstream media and politicians are complicit in the problem Biotechnology began to be applied to crop agriculture in the early 1980s, with the first commercialized …
Canadian Consumer Risk Perceptions of Biotech Food Production
When it comes to food production methods, the risks and benefits matter Studies on consumer awareness and knowledge, specifically on how crops and foods are …
Where is A&W getting it right?
Why A&W Canada has found success amongst their customers Back in 2015 when SAIFood was launched, we posted one of our most-read blogs “A(mbiguous) & …
Greenpeace and Golden Rice
Environmental activists opposed to improving rice nutrition In late July 2021, the Philippines became the first country on the planet to approve Golden Rice for …
A Many Splendored Fall
Droughts, elections, pandemics all offer turmoil As my research team and I begin the kick off of another academic year, we recently learned that SAIFood …
Have Changes to Canada’s Plant Breeders’ Rights Act Affected Investment Incentives for Canadian Plant Breeders?
Plant breeders’ rights (PBRs) are a form of intellectual property (IP) protection that provide plant breeders protection to newly developed crop, fruit, and vegetable varieties. …
Interesting Agenda of Speakers for the 25th ICABR Conference
In 1997, a small group of agricultural economists met at the Food and Agriculture Organization’s headquarters in Rome, Italy to discuss the impacts that biotechnology …
Reassessing industrial hemp
By: Tyler Couture, University of Saskatchewan student In the late 1980s, Canada was at the beginning of its second economic recession, and there was an …
The Benefits from GMO Regulatory Harmonization
On May 4th, 2021, a webinar organized by the International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR) and CropLife International was held, focusing on the importance …