SAIFood: Sustainable, Agricultural Innovations & Food

Agriculture, Sustainable

How Chemical Use Has Changed in Prairie Agriculture

Environmental groups that are opposed to the use of innovative crop technologies such as genetically modified (GM) crops that are herbicide tolerant (HT), frequently like to proclaim that the use of these crops has resulted in a substantial increase in…

SAIFood
03/31/2015
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Agri-vated, Agriculture, Food, Sustainable

A(mbiguous) & W(rong)

How A&W Canada supports Unstainable Agriculture I miss A&W’s onion rings. The reason I miss them is that I no longer buy food at their chain of restaurants. A&W has initiated a marketing campaign that misleads consumers about beef production…

Agri-vated, Food

Agri-vated over Bacon!

I enjoy grocery shopping, but I’m increasingly becoming agri-vated by labelling and how food companies misuse labels to market products to consumers. Don’t get me wrong, product labelling and marketing is important, companies know how to catch my eye and…

Savannah Gleim
03/17/2015

GM Apples or browning apples, its your choice

Food, Innovation

The Apple of My Eye

Genetically Modified Apples My kids love apples. I can’t even fathom how many times I’ve wished I could have included sliced apple into their school lunches when they were in elementary school. The inability to include apple slices in children’s…

BIOTECHWEEK, Innovation

Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

In September 2013, I was speaking at a conference in New Delhi, India and had the good fortune to be part of a session that included Dr Aldo Malavasi. Aldo is an accomplished scientist from Brazil and at the time…

Agriculture, Innovation

Benefits of GM crops: Which voice to listen to?

Genetically modified (GM) crops have been identified by many groups and organizations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as an important tool, essential in working towards reducing the global food insecurity and land supply problems. In spite of considerable…

SAIFood
02/24/2015
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Agriculture, Innovation

Economic and Health Benefits of GM Cotton in Burkina Faso

One of the most frequent claims from the critics of biotechnology and GM crops is that ‘there are no benefits to GM crops’. This is a claim made largely in ignorance and refusal to acknowledge that there are benefits from…

SAIFood
02/17/2015

Agriculture, BIOTECHWEEK, Innovation

Human Health Benefits of Genetically Modified Flax Oil

Could a genetically modified flax oil help treat breast cancer? The health benefits of flax consumption, such as the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, have been known for some time. A recent collaborative research article between the Universities of Alberta and…

SAIFood
02/10/2015

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Welcome to SAIFood

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the inaugural blog on sustainable agricultural innovations and food (SAIFood). I am an agricultural economist at the University of Saskatchewan and I hold the Industry Funded Research Chair in Agri-Food Innovation. The…

SAIFood
02/03/2015
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