Virtual map aims to connect people to food resources across Toronto
With the help of Agincourt community services, Registered Dietitian Ekta Amarnani, M.Sc.鈥�17 has put together an interactive map that helps people locate food resources across Toronto with the intention of increasing access to food.
COVID-19 reshaped the way we buy, prepare and consume food
To better understand food-related decisions during the pandemic, our research team conducted an online survey among a sample of adults from the province of Qu茅bec. This survey spanned three different time points between the initial lockdown in the spring of 2020 and the curfew period in Qu茅bec in the winter of 2021.
Canadian government invests $1M to improve health of dairy cows
With an investment of nearly $1 million from the Government of Canada, the Association of Veterinary Practitioners of Quebec will be able to develop a digital tool to anticipate and reduce the risks associated with metabolic diseases in dairy cows which are a major health problem, especially in the post-calving period. Prof.
Fall colours on full display at Mac Campus
Macdonald Campus is beautiful year-round, but is truly spectacular in the fall. Neale McDevitt, the Editor of the McGill Reporter, took a stroll through Mac Campus this past weekend and took the following pictures.
View photos in the McGill Reporter.
Ferme Le Paysan Gourmand finding creative ways to reduce food waste
L'脡picerie recently featured Rosemarie Allen (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)鈥�12) and Jacob Morin (FMT鈥�11) of Ferme Le Paysan Gourmand in Saint-F茅lix-de-Kingsey who participate in an on-farm program to reduce food waste. The episode follows Meilleur Apr猫s volunteers who harvest produce that would have remained in the field.
Mac alumni win Homegrown Innovation Challenge
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�
Whalen offers expert view on status of soil health in Canada
On September 29th, James McGill Professor Joann Whalen, Natural Resource Sciences, testified as an expert before Canada鈥檚 Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry on the topic of 鈥淩eview and report on the status of soil health in Canada鈥�.
Watch her testimony on ParlVu (09:43:59)
David Wees explains the science of fall colours
"People think that the colder fall temperatures trigger the colour change, but it鈥檚 actually the photoperiod," explains Plant Science Faculty Lecturer David Wees. However, some regions of Quebec are luckier when it comes to fall colours than others: those with a lot of deciduous trees like maples, oaks or even birches. On the other hand, areas that have more conifers will see fewer transformations to their landscape.鈥�
Nutrition student helps MUHC add Indigenous option to menu
When an Indigenous patient receiving treatment at the MUHC refused to eat, McGill MScA candidate Manveen Sethi was enlisted to find an authentic recipe for Bannock bread, a traditional Indigenous snack. Through research and with the help of Indigenous patients who taste-tested recipes, Sethi found a recipe that will now be permanently available on the MUHC menu and hopefully offer a little comfort to Indigenous patients being treated at the facility.
Investing in student success
McGill students have proven time and time again that they are some of the most creative, versatile and adaptive people in their approach to solving problems, and they鈥檙e using knowledge acquired in and outside of the classroom to generate innovative solutions to the world鈥檚 most pressing issues.
Funding brings groundbreaking ideas to life
School of Human Nutrition alumni Bianca Loge, BSc(NutrSc)鈥�20, Kristen Sunstrum, BSc(NutrSc)鈥�21, and Zoey Li, BSc(NutrSc)鈥�17, reminisce about the unique extracurricular opportunities made possible by the Student Experience Enhancement Fund, and the host of real-world skills they acquired that they鈥檝e since gone on to apply to their blossoming careers.
Filmmaker Alex Pritz focuses on human relationship with the natural world
In August, documentary filmmaker Alex Pritz, BSc(AgEnvSc)鈥�13 鈥� BSE has released his award-winning National Geographic documentary The Territory which 鈥減rovides an immersive on-the-ground look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by farmers and illegal settlers in the Brazilian Amazon.鈥�
Made by hands-on learning: Jennifer Dumoulin
Focus on Macdonald sat down with alum Jennifer Dumoulin, BSc(AgEnvSc)鈥�11 Environmental Biology, to ask a few questions about her student experiences that led to a successful career as an environmental manager.
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Building agricultural capacity in Quebec
In the 1960s, only about three percent of the land in Quebec was suitable for cultivation. The Province鈥檚 population and need for food outstripped the yield from Quebec farms. More than half of Quebec鈥檚 most fertile lands required improved water management 鈥� either better drainage or supplemental irrigation to maximize productivity and yield.