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Virtual map aims to connect people to food resources across Toronto

Published: 11 November 2022

With the help of Agincourt community services, Registered Dietitian Ekta Amarnani, M.Sc.’17 has put together an interactive map that helps people locate food resources across Toronto with the...

Quebec increases its sustainable agriculture program by $15 million

Published: 12 December 2022

On Monday, Minister of Agriculture André Lamontagne will speak at the 7th Summit of Subnational Governments and Cities, an "official side event" of COP15. The Minister, alongside a dozen...

Message from the Dean

Published: 9 February 2023

Dear members of the Macdonald Campus community...

Spiders caught in a web of Internet lies

Published: 8 September 2022

It’s no secret that the internet and social media fuel rampant spread of misinformation in many areas of life. A collective of researchers, including Catherine Scott, Postdoctoral Fellow in McGill...

Mac alumni win Homegrown Innovation Challenge

Published: 20 October 2022

Hydroponic strawberry growers and Co-founders of Vertité, Ophelia Sarakinis (FMT’19) and Phillip Rosenbaum (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)’19, MSc.’21) and their partners have just won the first phase of the...

Whalen speaks at ILO session on emerging green economy in Africa

Published: 30 November 2022

Prof. Joann Whalen (NRS) was an invited speaker at a recent session hosted by the AgriEdge program at Morocco’s Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) and the ProAgro Program at the...

McGill teams participate in Deep Space Food Challenge

Published: 25 January 2023

On January 17, two McGill teams, InSpira Photobioreactor and the Cricket Rearing, Collection, and Transformation System (CRCTS) competing under the McGill Advanced Bio-Regenerative Toolkit for Long...

Fresh produce contaminated with toxic BPA-like chemicals found in food labels, study finds

Published: 23 March 2023

Steps were taken in Canada to reduce the use of Bisphenol A (BPA), a toxic chemical linked to prostate and breast cancer, commonly found in plastics, the lining of food cans, water bottles, and...

A blueprint for life on MARS

Published: 7 July 2022

Lost Hammer Spring, in Nunavut in Canada’s High Arctic, is one of the coldest and saltiest terrestrial springs discovered to date. The water which travels up through 600 metres of permafrost to the...

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