�㽶��Ƶ News - agriculture

TISEDTalk: How do we unleash the potential of nano-fertilization to improve the environmental sustainability of agricultural crop production?

webfull — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:38:58 +0000

DATE: October 17th 2023 | TIME: 2:00pm (EST) | Location: Macdonald Engineering Building RM: 497

Present by Professor Søren Husted

Free Hybrid Seminar- Available on zoom

Published: 26 September 2023

Mac campus dairy wins regional award for milk excellence

webfull — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 20:14:22 +0000

For the third year in a row, the Macdonald Campus Dairy Unit has been awarded the title of Regional Club of Excellence Milk Quality Champion by dairy industry giant Agropur.

Accepting the award at a regional meeting on November 25, Natasha Lapointe, Animal Science Coordinator of the Dairy Unit, credited her team’s commitment to maintaining high standards.

Published: 4 January 2023

$12.7 Million for McGill Research from the Fonds de recherche du Québec

webfull — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:36:27 +0000

Tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity a key priority for McGill and Quebec

The Fonds de recherche du Québec announced its latest rounds of funding earlier this month in support of research, training, and initiatives to tackle major societal challenges—including climate change and biodiversity loss.

Published: 30 June 2022

New Policy Brief from ISID! Increasing Access to Affordable Agricultural Microinsurance in Sub-Saharan Africa

webfull — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:15:54 +0000

In this new policy brief by Brenden McKinney, we learn that the effects of climate change are causing risk management to become an increasingly essential tool to help farmers anticipate and react to weather- related shocks like droughts and floods.

Published: 18 October 2021

Ces plantes nuisibles qui envahissent les champs agricoles et les forêts

webfull — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:34:58 +0000

Phragmite, panais sauvage, herbe à poux, nerprun, renoué du Japon : ce sont toutes des plantes envahissantes, nuisibles à un certain degré, qui prennent de plus en plus de place sur les terres agricoles et parfois même dans nos forêts. Plusieurs sont inconnues de la population générale, mais causent de sérieux maux de tête aux agriculteurs.

Parmi celles-ci, la plus problématique semble être le phragmite, aussi appelé « roseau commun ». On le qualifie parfois de « véritable menace à la biodiversité des lieux humides ».

Published: 3 August 2020

NEWSWEEK | Glyphosate herbicide roundup triggers loss of biodiversity among freshwater algae

webfull — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:20:48 +0000

The glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup has been found to trigger the loss of biodiversity among phytoplankton communities in freshwater ponds. In their experiments, scientists found that while some populations developed resistance to the herbicide and were able to survive exposure at high levels, this came at a cost, with a 40 percent loss in biodiversity.

"The ubiquitous presence of glyphosate in the environment has sparked concerns over its potential health and ecotoxicological effects," Andrew Gonzalez, from Canada's �㽶��Ƶ, said.

Published: 4 March 2020

Agriculture programs change with the times

webfull — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:30:30 +0000

Agriculture faculties are becoming some of the most exciting hubs of interdisciplinary collaboration on Canadian campuses.

Published: 28 February 2020

Climate Change threatens crops, water for billions around the globe

webfull — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:50:54 +0000

Canadian research is part of an extensive global climate change study that has found billions of the world’s poorest people are at risk.

The results, published Thursday in the journal Science, raise troubling questions about who will be able to adapt in a shifting, less dependable world.

“There’s a great potential for the problems to occur where people have the least ability to cope with it,” said Elena Bennett [NRS], who studies ecological systems at �㽶��Ƶ and is one of the paper’s 21 co-authors.

Published: 17 October 2019

GODAN Moves Headquarters to Montreal, Canada

webfull — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:05:27 +0000

GODAN NEWS RELEASE

Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN), the UN, UK and US government supported initiative driving global efforts to tackle food security and to end world hunger by propagating open data polices in agriculture and nutrition across the world, announces the relocation of its headquarters from Oxford, in the United Kingdom to �㽶��Ƶ in Montréal, Canada effective of 24 of September 2019.

Published: 25 September 2019

Macdonald team heads for National Design Innovation Challenge for Agriculture

webfull — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:08:37 +0000

Dalhousie University, Lethbridge College and �㽶��Ƶ are collaborating with Farm Credit Canada on a 2 year pilot project to bring Canadian post-secondary agriculture students together to create innovative solutions to Canadian agricultural challenges. Fifteen students will bring their diverse Canadian perspectives together in cross-institutional teams responding to a specific regional agricultural issue. The challenge tasks will take teams through a creative problem solving matrix as they meet with local producers to discover the full amplitude of the challenge question.

Published: 13 September 2019