Misleading the Public about the Benefits of the Green Revolution
Activist lies about Green Revolution’s success In the past few years, many environmental and academic activists have been undermining the work of Norman Borlaug and …
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Grasspea Project in Quebec: Securing Fund for Resilient Agriculture
By Priyanka Gupta Quebec’s agricultural sector is evolving with a focus on diversifying crops to enhance food security, climate resilience, and environmental sustainability. One promising …
What’s your Beef with Beef?
The Future of Lab-Cultured Meats in Canada By: Noelle Caouette University of Saskatchewan student What is Lab-Cultured Meat? Lab-cultured meat is an up-and-coming alternative to …
Superweeds: The Canadian Prairie Experience with Herbicide Resistant Weeds
Unwanted weeds within farmers’ fields is not a new problem, but it is still one of the greatest challenges farmers face on a yearly basis. …
Organic Yields to Fall Further Behind Conventional Crops
A lack of sufficient nutrient application and the limited ability to control weeds, insects, and plant diseases, results in organic crop yields lagging behind conventional …
50 Years of Biotechnology Benefits
Experiments involving recombinant DNA (rDNA) began in laboratories just over 50 years ago. At this time in the early 1970s, scientists were beginning to understand …
Ramifications of the Bunge-Viterra Merger
By: Avery Hodgins University of Saskatchewan student The Grain Powerhouses: Bunge and Viterra In the world grain trading game, four major players control 90% of …
The Grasslands are Going Space-age
On August 13, 2024 while SAIFood was on summer break, it was finally announced, that USASK researchers from the Departments of Geography and Planning, Plant …
Innovation Adoption Lags in Agriculture
Every innovative product of technology that is commercialized eventually reaches what is known as “full adoption”. This is the point at which the peak percentage …
Direct and Indirect Environmental Impacts of GM Crops
Review Evidence from Noack et al. (2024) Here, on SAIFood, our opinions on genetic modification (GM) have been apparent: we know that they are beneficial …