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Scientists and agricultural students have a significant role to play in achieving integrated food production, Prof. Vijaya Raghavan emphasized.
The wildfires that ravaged Canada this summer have some experts calling for a more aggressive approach than the country has applied in the past.聽
This year, nearly 30 million acres have burned across Canada. In聽eastern provinces such as Quebec, where聽blazes are less common, wildfire agencies that are equipped to fight fewer and smaller fires were largely unprepared for the circumstances.
All residential buildings in Montreal with under nine units now have brown bins鈥攂ut only 63 per cent actually sort out their food waste, according to a 2021 survey conducted by the city. Meanwhile, the Lachenaie landfill in Terrebonne鈥攖he only landfill in the Montreal area鈥攊s set to reach its capacity in 2029.
The city says a large-scale food waste awareness campaign will launch later this year to try to boost citizens' participation in separating out organics.聽
Palm oil, which can be found in roughly half of all packaged supermarket products, is notorious for causing聽deforestation and biodiversity loss. Efforts to curtail the damage have largely focused on voluntary environmental certification programs that label qualifying palm-oil sources as "sustainable."
In a recent multidisciplinary study published in Advanced Science, researchers build upon the principles of biomimicry by drawing inspiration from the wing of a dragonfly to redesign that of a Boeing 777.
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The impacts of climate change, rising fuel costs, geopolitical conflicts, and global supply chain snags make today's delocalized food system鈥攁nd the 8 billion people who depend on it鈥攊ncreasingly vulnerable.聽
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Congratulations to two Macdonald Profs who have received funding through the New Frontiers in Research Fund Exploration stream, which supports high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research: Hamid Akbarzadeh (BRE) for Origami-inspired deployable sensoriactuator soft robots and Mehran Dastmalchi (PltSci) for Plant-derived biosynergists to enhance pesticide efficacy.
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Three projects will fill knowledge gaps about the environmental and economic impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen Canada's capacity to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
Hydroponic strawberry growers and Co-founders of Vertit茅, Ophelia Sarakinis (FMT鈥�19) and Phillip Rosenbaum (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)鈥�19, MSc.鈥�21) and their partners have just won the first phase of the Homegrown Innovation Challenge, a 鈥渟ix-year, $33-million initiative from the Weston Family Foundation to future-proof food production in Canada.鈥�
Through the International Youth Internship Program (IYIP), a joint program with the Government of Canada and the United Nations Association in Canada, young Canadians are given the opportunity to gain professional experience in international development work. Natalie Wu, a Bioresource Masters student, was selected as part of the 2021 cohort. She was a Junior Professional Consultant (JPC) and was remotely placed for six months at the World Food Programme鈥檚 (WFP) headquarters in Rome.
