/channels/taxonomy/term/363/all en /channels/channels/news/tisedtalk-how-do-we-unleash-potential-nano-fertilization-improve-environmental-sustainability-351390 <h3>DATE: October 17th 2023 | TIME: 2:00pm (EST) |  Location: Macdonald Engineering Building RM: 497</h3> <h4><strong>Present by Professor Søren Husted</strong></h4> <h4>Free Hybrid Seminar- Available on zoom</h4> Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:38:58 +0000 webfull 193232 at /channels /channels/channels/event/tisedtalk-how-do-we-unleash-potential-nano-fertilization-improve-environmental-sustainability-351119 <h4>DATE: October 17th 2023 | TIME: 2:00pm (EST) |  Location: Macdonald Engineering Building RM: 497</h4> <h4>Presented by: Prof. Søren Husted</h4> <h4>Free Hybrid Seminar- Available on zoom</h4> Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:46:39 +0000 webfull 192924 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mac-campus-dairy-wins-regional-award-milk-excellence-344726 <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> Wed, 04 Jan 2023 20:14:22 +0000 webfull 185798 at /channels /channels/channels/news/127-million-mcgill-research-fonds-de-recherche-du-quebec-340106 <h2><b>Tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity a key priority for �鶹Լ�� and Quebec</b></h2> <p>The Fonds de recherche du Québec <a href="https://frq.gouv.qc.ca/en/2022-2023-competition-results/">announced </a>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.</p> Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:36:27 +0000 webfull 180737 at /channels /channels/channels/news/new-policy-brief-isid-increasing-access-affordable-agricultural-microinsurance-sub-saharan-africa-334227 <p>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.</p> Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:15:54 +0000 webfull 174023 at /channels /channels/channels/event/macdonald-campus-virtual-career-fair-2021-333219 <p>Looking for an internship or part time job? Or maybe a full time position after graduation?</p> Thu, 09 Sep 2021 15:21:36 +0000 webfull 172935 at /channels /channels/channels/news/ces-plantes-nuisibles-qui-envahissent-les-champs-agricoles-et-les-forets-323465 <p>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.</p> <p>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 ».</p> Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:34:58 +0000 webfull 162221 at /channels /channels/channels/event/sustainable-energy-water-and-nutrient-systems-controlled-plant-environments-321003 <p>Special Bioresource Engineering seminar with<strong> Jonathan Maisonneuve</strong>, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oakland University. Everyone is welcome to attend.</p> Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:34:37 +0000 webfull 159386 at /channels /channels/channels/news/newsweek-glyphosate-herbicide-roundup-triggers-loss-biodiversity-among-freshwater-algae-320983 <p>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.</p> <p><br /> "The ubiquitous presence of glyphosate in the environment has sparked concerns over its potential health and ecotoxicological effects," <strong>Andrew Gonzalez</strong>, from Canada's �鶹Լ��, said. </p> Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:20:48 +0000 webfull 159363 at /channels /channels/channels/news/agriculture-programs-change-times-320907 <p>Agriculture faculties are becoming some of the most exciting hubs of interdisciplinary collaboration on Canadian campuses.</p> Fri, 28 Feb 2020 15:30:30 +0000 webfull 159267 at /channels /channels/channels/news/climate-change-threatens-crops-water-billions-around-globe-301808 <p>Canadian research is part of an extensive global climate change study that has found billions of the world’s poorest people are at risk.</p> <p>The results, published Thursday in the journal <em><strong>Science</strong></em>, raise troubling questions about who will be able to adapt in a shifting, less dependable world.</p> <p>“There’s a great potential for the problems to occur where people have the least ability to cope with it,” said <strong>Elena Bennett</strong> [NRS], who studies ecological systems at �鶹Լ�� and is one of the paper’s 21 co-authors.</p> Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:50:54 +0000 webfull 154560 at /channels /channels/channels/news/godan-moves-headquarters-montreal-canada-300941 <p><strong>GODAN NEWS RELEASE</strong></p> <p><strong>Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)</strong>, 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 �鶹Լ�� in Montréal, Canada effective of 24 of September 2019.</p> Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:05:27 +0000 webfull 153503 at /channels /channels/channels/news/macdonald-team-heads-national-design-innovation-challenge-agriculture-300621 <p>Dalhousie University, Lethbridge College and �鶹Լ�� 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.</p> Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:08:37 +0000 webfull 153122 at /channels /channels/channels/event/career-expo-professional-campus-294967 <p>The Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences University Advancement office, in collaboration with CaPS, MCSS, DHNUS, FSA, AESUS and BESS, is excited to be hosting a Career Expo.</p> Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:42:31 +0000 webfull 146753 at /channels /channels/channels/news/les-beaux-defis-de-lagriculture-urbaine-290535 <p>Chaque année, à la rentrée scolaire, <strong>David Wees</strong> propose un petit défi à ses étudiants inscrits au cours d’agriculture urbaine de l’Université �鶹Լ�� : calculer dans quelle mesure les terres agricoles de l’île de Montréal peuvent nourrir ses habitants. « En se basant sur une superficie de 2 000 hectares et sur un rendement moyen de 26 tonnes/hectare [de légumes cultivés au jardin], on obtient un résultat assez impressionnant : ces terres pourraient combler environ 15 % des besoins en légumes des Montréalais », explique l’agronome.</p> Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:56:46 +0000 webfull 141907 at /channels