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 …
Sustainability
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 …
Fossil Fuels: Is Agriculture Accommodating Reduced Dependence?
Agriculture Myth Busting The Canadian government has spent years reworking their federal environmental frameworks to accommodate changing sustainability standards. In 2023 for instance, as the …
GM Crop Contributions Towards Mitigating Climate Change
With GM crops having been produced for over 25 years now, there is an increasing amount of evidence regarding the degree and diversity of benefits …
Regenerative Agriculture: Consumer Perceptions
Introduction Arguably, the consumer perceptions facet of this blog series should have been the lead off, as it is consumer perceptions that drive product markets. …
Producer Perceptions of Regenerative Agriculture
Adopters and Adversaries Introduction As major food companies direct farmers and ranchers across the globe towards regenerative agriculture (RA), it could easily be assumed …
Economic Sustainability vs. Environmental Sustainability
Over the past few years, ‘environmental sustainability’ has become commonplace within society. This is a term that frequently lacks definition as it is so widely …
Regenerative Agriculture – Buzzword? Bust? Or the Future of Agriculture?
The Stronghold of a sustainable subsistence? Regenerative agriculture has been the hottest topic in developed nation food and bioresource supply chains over the past 10 …
Prairie Agriculture Net GHG Emissions Decrease by 53%
Introduction In the past 30 years, grain and oilseed production across the prairies has undergone fundamental change. In the early 1990s, practices such as summerfallow …
Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems: How Interested are the Prairies?
The broadness of the term ‘sustainability’ implies a multitude of approaches. The same is true in agriculture, as farmers’ drive to be environmentally conscious, economically …