Seed Innovation for Food Security
Seed as a Starting Point Using the best ingredients or inputs is common with virtually all things we do. When we prepare to cook or …
Innovation
Let’s Talk Farming: What’s the Scoop on Digital Ag?
Let’s Talk Farming Series Saskatchewan farmers rely on a vast toolkit of technologies to produce their crops every year. Farming practices are always changing, and …
A Review of 2022 and a Look Ahead to 2023
A Quick Recap of 2022 If I was asked to assign a grade to the year that was, 2022 would likely be a C, possibly …
A Cracking Alternative to Eggs
It should be of no surprise that I am once again writing about an alternative protein product, this time, for eggs! Given that SAIFood stands …
Government Decisions That Needlessly Extend Food Insecurity
What are the costs of not adopting the best food producing technologies? The ability to quantify a choice that is not made is not an …
Is our meat future cultured enough to accept change?
This meat has something to snout about The next stage of meat innovation is nearing, and it’s skipping the whole slaughter and processing steps. That …
From Mad Scientists to Maddening Science Perceptions
An eerie evolution It’s Halloween, a time when we welcome horror and stories that provoke fear into our lives. Oddly we celebrate stories of chainsaw …
Plants Are Carbon Sequestration Factories
The vital human-plant relationship Humans and plants have a beneficial relationship, we breathe out carbon which through photosynthesis, plants use for growth and in this …
The Food Security Benefits from Genome Sequencing
A lengthy history of genome sequencing In the 1990s, the world witnessed an incredible scientific achievement, the sequencing of the human genome. This was a …
Environmental activist irony
The following article was originally posted by the Genetic Literacy Project (GLP), on August 25, 2022. Click here to see Dr. Smyth’s original post. Thank you to …