Sustainability Inexperience: Is the Environment Enough?
Agriculture Myth Busting Asking everyone to do their part to improve sustainable lifestyle choices often prioritizes one aspect: the environment. In the 1980s, when sustainable …
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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 …
The Ideal Future: Can We Ever Truly Be “Sustainable”?
Agriculture Myth Busting You read correctly: Agriculture Myth Busting has returned! To match some of the in-office conversations we’ve been having about its increasing generality …
Agricultural Plastics and the Challenge of Permanence
In less than a year, Agriculture and Agrifood Canada (AAFC) will require reports on the quantity of plastic produced or imported to Canada for 2024. …
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 …
Food System Transformations
Calls for transforming food systems have grown over the past several years. International governance organizations, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), have issued …
The Conflict Between the Sustainable Development Goals and Environmental Activists
At the end of the 20th century, the United Nations (UN) launched the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs were a list of eight Goals with a 2015 …
Turning Green Coconut into Green Fuel
Ethanol Production from Coconut Husk Biomass By Dr. Luíza Favaratto Global scenario on climate change Modern transportation, with approximately 1.47 billion vehicles worldwide, propels …
Pioneering Sustainable Agriculture in Saskatchewan Through Local Innovations
By Elisabeta Lika The Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at the University of Saskatchewan recently conducted an in-depth study on the carbon footprint of …
Soil Health: Can Agriculture Be a Positive Influence?
Agriculture Myth Busting Agriculture needs soil. Not dirt, soil. The difference between dirt and soil should be on either end of the land spectrum but, …