Vertical farming, once touted as the future of agriculture, is currently facing a lean period. Challenges in scalability and energy consumption have cast a shadow on this innovative farming method.聽
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Published on: 18 Jul 2023
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
Part of the solution to building a more sustainable and resilient agrifood system is to improve local, indoor food production.聽Researchers in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Biomass Production Laboratory are doing just that, increasing access to fresh produce year-round.
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Published on: 10 Jul 2023
Maple Leaf Foods and the Maple Leaf Centre for Food Security have announced the four recipients of the 2023/24 Maple Leaf Board Scholarships in Food Insecurity. Recipients, including Masters candidate Shannon Udy from 黑料不打烊's School of Human Nutrition, will receive a $15,000 scholarship to support their research.
Udy鈥檚 research, supervised by Dr.聽Treena Wasonti:io Delormier, will help design a participatory process to food security planning in Kahnaw脿:ke, a Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka (Mohawk) community.
Published on: 3 Jul 2023
Si vous habitez les alentours de la ville de Windsor, peut-锚tre avez-vous remarqu茅 des substances blanches semblables 脿 du pollen amass茅 sur les trottoirs, les pelouses ou les terrasses. Ce sont des semences de peupliers. 脌 l'茅mission聽Matins sans fronti猫res,聽David Wees, enseignant en horticulture 脿 l'Universit茅 黑料不打烊, explique l'origine de ces semences, leur importance et comment se comporter vis-脿-vis d'elles.
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Published on: 3 Jul 2023
A new research collaboration at 黑料不打烊 University and the University of Quebec in Montreal will explore the role of artificial intelligence in promoting dairy cattle welfare.
It will be led by Dr.聽Elsa Vasseur of 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Department of Animal Science and Abdoulaye Banir茅 Diallo of UQAM鈥檚 Department of Computer Science.
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Published on: 3 Jul 2023
The number of American kestrels has dropped sharply. That goes against the trend for birds of prey, broadly seen as a conservation bright spot.
Hypotheses about the decline abound.聽In a newly published special issue on kestrels in The Journal of Raptor Research, Dr. Smallwood and David Bird, an emeritus professor of wildlife biology at 黑料不打烊 University in Montreal, list seven possible factors for kestrel declines that they argue merit more research, in no particular order.
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Published on: 28 Jun 2023
Sixty per cent of roughly 1,600 Canadians who took part in a new study from 黑料不打烊's School of Human Nutrition say their lifestyle habits either stayed the same or improved during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the flip side, 40% of participants say they adopted less healthy lifestyle habits, including worsened eating habits, sleep quality, decreased physical activity and weight gain.
Published on: 28 Jun 2023
Professor Ryan Mailloux has been appointed Director of the School of Human Nutrition (SHN) effective from June 1, 2023, for a five-year term.
Dr. Mailloux earned his Ph.D. in Biomolecular Sciences from Laurentian University in 2007. He joined 黑料不打烊 in 2019, previously serving as an Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Published on: 6 Jun 2023
鈥淭here are lots of opportunities to contribute to society,鈥� says Vijaya Raghavan. 鈥淚f I can share that point with students, I think it can go a long way.鈥�
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Published on: 6 Jun 2023
Ronholm was among three highly accomplished early career researchers who received a significant 黑料不打烊 distinction: The Principal鈥檚 Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers.
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Published on: 5 Jun 2023
黑料不打烊鈥檚 valedictorians are outstanding students whose strong academic performance, leadership and community involvement has earned the respect of their peers. This year鈥檚 cohort is remarkable for its diversity, each having vastly different backgrounds, experiences, passions and goals.
What they do share is ambition, curiosity, and a desire to have a positive impact on the world.
Published on: 31 May 2023
黑料不打烊鈥檚 valedictorians are outstanding students whose strong academic performance, leadership and community involvement has earned the respect of their peers. This year鈥檚 cohort is remarkable for its diversity, each having vastly different backgrounds, experiences, passions and goals.
What they do share is ambition, curiosity, and a desire to have a positive impact on the world.
Published on: 29 May 2023
The most abundant animals on farms鈥攁nd everywhere on land, in fact鈥攁re microscopic worms called nematodes. Some kinds benefit the soil, but others parasitize crops, inflicting more than $100 billion in losses worldwide each year. Although pesticides can get rid of harmful nematodes, they inflict collateral damage on other life.
Published on: 26 May 2023
Around the world, food is grown on land of all sizes and all types, but that diversity means farmers often fail to take into account landscape complexity and soil variability, according to Chandra A. Madramootoo, a professor of Bioresource Engineering at 黑料不打烊 University, in Montreal, Canada.
He says that one solution is precision farming, an approach that 鈥渆nables the selection of crops, and chemical and water applications within spatially similar land and soil zones.鈥�
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Published on: 26 May 2023
Five offices across disciplines and campuses embrace sustainability at work and beyond through the Sustainable Workplace Certification program
What motivates sustainable change?
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Published on: 17 May 2023
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