/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1393/all en /newsroom/channels/news/government-canada-invests-6m-climate-change-adaptation-and-interdisciplinary-research-mcgill-357527 <p> <i>Two ±«ÓãÖ±²¥-led climate change mitigation projects receive funding from the New Frontiers in Research</i><i> </i><i>Fund’s (NFRF) International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Competition.</i> <i>Thirteen researchers receive grants through the NFRF Exploration Competition.</i></p> Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:55:03 +0000 admin 310577 at /newsroom /newsroom/elsa-vasseur Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:27:22 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 307674 at /newsroom /newsroom/hugo-melgar-quinonez Fri, 24 Mar 2023 22:48:40 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 297480 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/preventing-spread-plant-pandemics-331095 <p>Plant diseases don’t stop at national borders and miles of oceans don’t prevent their spread, either. That’s why plant disease surveillance, improved detection systems, and global predictive disease modeling are necessary to mitigate future disease outbreaks and protect the global food supply, according to a team of researchers in a new commentary published in <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022239118"><i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</i></a>.</p> Mon, 17 May 2021 16:18:09 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 265897 at /newsroom /newsroom/patrick-cortbaoui Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:20:12 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 262340 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/survey-says-canadians-asking-better-food-systems-and-food-sparked-covid-19-access-327230 <p>Shopping anxiety, higher food prices and individual income limitations are some of the factors making access to food challenging for Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study suggests.</p> <p>Researchers conducted an online inter-provincial survey with residents of B.C., Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces during the first wave of COVID-19. The survey assessed how the pandemic affected food access and behaviour in each region and how perceptions regarding the food systems may have been altered.</p> Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:43:36 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 253728 at /newsroom /newsroom/daiva-nielsen Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:43:36 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 252624 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-international-day-awareness-food-loss-and-waste-september-29-324949 <p>This year represents the first ever observance of the International Day of Awareness on Food Loss and Waste. The COVID-19 pandemic continues generating significant challenges to food security in many countries. These challenges include disruptions in supply chains, quarantine measures, and the closure of much of the hospitality industry and schools. All these measures have resulted in a loss of markets for producers and distributors, making the situation even more challenging. (<a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-food-waste-day">United Nations</a>)</p> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:14:27 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 241523 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/no-grain-self-sufficiency-china-without-changes-land-policies-287551 <p>If China is to achieve its target of 95% grain self-sufficiency by 2030 it will need to restrict the conversion of arable land to other uses say researchers from ±«ÓãÖ±²¥. This may prove challenging in a country with a population of almost 1.4 billion, but with just under 13% of arable land, close to half of which is suffering from soil degradation. After analyzing the potential impacts of various current trade-related food policies, the researchers have arrived at the conclusion that the current Red Line arable land protection policy is insufficient to reach the government’s desired goal.</p> Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:28:52 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 43835 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/biodiverse-agriculture-part-food-secure-future-232987 Sat, 15 Feb 2014 21:28:27 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 19728 at /newsroom