Oh Deere!
John Deere chasing copyright claims to your tractor Have you ever felt like you never really owned something you bought (perhaps your cat)? Well this …
Policy
When Will You Know What the TPP Means to You?
By: William A. Kerr Bioresourse Policy, Business and Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada In early October, Canada and eleven other countries reached agreement on a major …
Still Hungry for Change
How Successful Has the World Been in Meeting the Millennium Development Goals? Source: Rahulkepapam, via Wikimedia Commons Fifteen years ago, the United Nations (UN) gathered …
Whose Duty is it?
Today producers in North America have a wide selection of seed options from which to choose. However, the opportunity to grow some seed has come …
The Cost of Regulatory Delays on Agriculture Innovations
How Political Interference is Jeopardizing Agriculture Research in Developing Countries In Canada, the regulatory approval of all new crop varieties is done using science as …
Post Foods Consumer Scam
Is deceptive labelling deceiving you? The other morning when I sat down to breakfast, I was absolutely floored (literally, not physically!) by Post Foods’ deliberate …
Environmental Colonialism
How environmental activists work to keep the poor, poor. Environmental non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) loudly proclaim biotechnology and genetically modified (GM) crops provide no benefits. These …
Four diverse views of the bioeconomy
This past June we at SAIFood (Stuart & Savannah) travelled to Italy for the 19th International Consortium for Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR) conference. The conference …
Potential Solution to Managing Asynchronous Approvals
Urgent need to address a $1 billion/year problem One challenge for agriculture in the past few years has been the variation in approvals times of …
Winners and Losers from GM Technologies and the Policy Response in the Organic Good Market
Our very own Stuart Smyth of SAIFood and his colleagues of the University of Saskatchewan, William Kerr & Peter Phillips, have just been published in …