Panelists at the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) Canadian Agri-Food in a Sustainable World conference offered international perspectives on sustainability in the ag industry.
Tag Archives Sustainability
What sustainability lessons can Canada learn from abroad?
Good work done on beef sustainability, but more left to do: researcher
Canada’s beef industry has reduced its carbon footprint, but there’s always room for improvement, meat company researcher says
Canada's beef industry has reduced its carbon footprint, but there's always room for improvement, meat company researcher says.
Birds and bison and rejuvenating the land
Prairie landscapes can be agriculturally and ecologically productive
Prairie landscapes can be both agriculturally and ecologically productive.
University of Manitoba to get $7.6 million to research net-zero farming
Research project to explore how net-zero farming can be made realistic
University of Manitoba funding to explore how net-zero farming can be made realistic for producers.
Saskatchewan company pitches decarbonized fertilizer
Post-production carbon capture will remove carbon dioxide and send it deep underground: company
CARBONCO's post-production carbon capture will remove carbon dioxide from fertilizer manufacture and send it deep underground at incoming Genesis Fertilizers plant.
Struvite fertilizer from Winnipeg sewers
City wastewater upgrades will include equipment to ‘upcycle’ phosphorus
Winnipeg upgrades will process wastewater into commercial struvite fertilizer for crop nutrition compaly Ostara, helping to close the phosphorus loop.
Research weighs value to farm from field edges
Researchers hope to weigh whether the value of a ditch or shelterbelt, which is prime pollinator habitat, outweighs the weed or disease risk
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada researchers in Saskatchewan hope to weigh whether the value of a ditch or shelterbelt, which is prime pollinator habitat, outweighs the weed or disease risk.
Creating a pro-pollinator farm
Limiting tillage and creating habitat for beneficial insects can pad the producer’s bottom line
Limiting tillage and creating habitat for beneficial insects like pollinators can pad the producer’s bottom line
‘Guardrails’ needed on sustainable trade
CAFTA calls for better watch on the watchers when sustainability enters trade discussion
CAFTA calls for better watch on the watchers when sustainability enters trade discussion.
Putting a dollar to rangeland benefits
Research uses genomics to translate economic goods and services into monetary terms
Genome Prairie is a Prairie-wide, four-year project with an ultimate goal of preserving rangelands across Western Canada.
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