/channels/taxonomy/term/8413/all en /channels/channels/event/cannabis-scientific-symposium-plants-people-356690 <h2>±«ÓăÖ±˛Ą-led cannabis research and training program: past the halfway mark and gaining global recognition</h2> Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:45:44 +0000 webfull 199319 at /channels /channels/channels/event/2024-future-food-symposium-356117 <p>The <a href="https://cribiq.qc.ca/en/our-services/events/2024-future-of-food-symposium-innovations-challenges-and-perspectives">2024 Future of Food Symposium</a> aims to highlight innovative discoveries, challenges and perspectives pertaining to t</p> Wed, 13 Mar 2024 21:01:47 +0000 webfull 198584 at /channels /channels/channels/news/rise-vertical-farming-354555 <p>In the contemporary agricultural landscape, interest in vertical farming is surging. This alternative to conventional methods can allow farmer's to cultivate crops in compact spaces, maximizing output without expanding horizontally by instead cultivating crops in vertically stacked layers or inclined surfaces. Increasing land use efficiency is critical as the world grapples with limited arable land, especially in urban areas.</p> Mon, 22 Jan 2024 18:32:18 +0000 webfull 196772 at /channels /channels/channels/news/building-more-resilient-food-system-349027 <p>The impacts of climate change, rising fuel costs, geopolitical conflicts, and global supply chain snags make today's delocalized food system—and the 8 billion people who depend on it—increasingly vulnerable. </p> <p>Part of the solution to building a more sustainable and resilient agrifood system is to improve local, indoor food production. Researchers in ±«ÓăÖ±˛Ąâ€™s Biomass Production Laboratory are doing just that, increasing access to fresh produce year-round.</p> Mon, 10 Jul 2023 22:12:37 +0000 webfull 190484 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mcgill-team-advances-deep-space-food-challenge-348155 <p>A team led by two recent ±«ÓăÖ±˛Ą bioengineering graduates, Alexander Becker and Cynthia Hitti, has made it through to the final phase of the <a href="https://impact.canada.ca/en/challenges/deep-space-food-challenge">Deep Space Food Challenge (DSFC)</a> with their system for rearing crickets as a food source for long-haul space voyages.</p> Wed, 03 May 2023 13:29:05 +0000 webfull 189460 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mcgill-teams-participate-deep-space-food-challenge-345605 <p>On January 17, two ±«ÓăÖ±˛Ą teams, <strong>InSpira Photobioreactor and the Cricket Rearing, Collection, and Transformation System (CRCTS) </strong>competing under the ±«ÓăÖ±˛Ą Advanced Bio-Regenerative Toolkit for Long Excursion Trips (MARTLET) umbrella, presented their prototypes to the NASA/CSA Deep Space Food Challenge’s jury.</p> <p><a href="https://reporter.mcgill.ca/mcgill-teams-put-prototypes-through-their-paces-in-deep-space-food-challenge/">Read</a> the story in the <i>±«ÓăÖ±˛Ą Reporter</i>.</p> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:24:14 +0000 webfull 186675 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mac-alumni-win-homegrown-innovation-challenge-342941 <p>Hydroponic strawberry growers and Co-founders of VertitĂ©, <b>Ophelia Sarakinis</b> (FMT’19) and <b>Phillip Rosenbaum</b> (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)’19, MSc.’21) and their partners have just won the first phase of the Homegrown Innovation Challenge, a “six-year, $33-million initiative from the Weston Family Foundation to future-proof food production in Canada.”</p> Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:42:25 +0000 webfull 183827 at /channels /channels/news/farming-future-255559 <p> </p> <p>Bioresource Engineering professor <strong>Mark Lefsrud</strong> and PhD candidate <strong>DĂ©bora Parrine</strong> were featured on <strong>CBC's The National</strong> on Tuesday, September 22.</p> <p>Mark spoke about his work with Urban Barns, and how the new growth systems that he is developing are changing the face of agriculture.</p> Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:38:32 +0000 webfull 112708 at /channels