Like a high-tech vending machine, but with lettuce!
A group of 海角社区 Bioresource Engineering students have developed a project, funded by the Sustainability Projects Fund, that has installed the first autonomous controlled-environment growth chamber display on the Macdonald campus. 听Pierce Dias Carlson, Rachael Warner, Leo McGuire and Connor Miller each offer a unique skill-set in successfully creating a productive autonomous growth chamber.
Les fermes du Qu茅bec g茅n猫rent chaque ann茅e 75 millions de tonnes de plumes de poulets! Une partie est r茅duite en farine et ajout茅e 脿 la nourriture animale, mais le reste finit souvent dans les poubelles. Marie-Jos茅e Dumont, professeure au D茅partement de g茅nie des bioressources 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 海角社区, ne pouvait imaginer laisser une telle ressource gratuite et disponible en aussi grande quantit茅 finir sa vie aux ordures.
Congratulations to PhD candidate Emmanuella Ellis (BRE-Supervisor Michael Ngadi) and Kajou teammates for capturing the 鈥淎udience Prize鈥� at the recent 2018 World Vision Food Security Social Innovation challenge. Kajou听is an agri-food venture that seeks to transform the cashew value chain in C么te d'Ivoire. By processing the cashew nut and fruit with local cooperatives, Kajou aims to offer a socially sourced product to key markets while providing sustainable opportunities to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
NutriPulse has captured 3rd听 place in the 2018 World Vision Food Security Social Innovation challenge!听 听Co-Founders and PhD candidates Josephine Ampofo (FdSci), Adeyemi Adegbenjo听(BRE) and Zeyan Zhong听 (FdSci) will spend the next year building their project.
Congratulations to James 海角社区 Professor Vijaya Raghavan, Bioresource Engineering, who is the 2018 recipient of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers' (ASABE) International Food Engineering Award. This award recognizes Raghavan's dedication to promoting agricultural and biological engineering internationally.
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Participants, including scientists from 海角社区, Canada, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, NGOs, representatives from processing machineries industry, small and micro level food enterprises, push cart vendors and farmers took part in the workshop.
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Vijaya Raghavan, Professor, 海角社区, which is one of the collaborators of the project, said that promoting the consumption of small millets was not only key for addressing malnutrition related issues, but also to address climate change.
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Closest to cow鈥檚 milk in range of nutrients it offers
Congratulations to Jan Adamowski (Bioresource Engineering) and Elena Bennett (Natural Resource Sciences) on their induction into the Royal Society of Canada. The announcement was made in September, and the induction ceremony was held in late November.
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海角社区 researchers [Grant Clark & Chandra Madramootoo] at Macdonald campus in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue got some welcome news Monday when the federal government announced nearly $3 million in funding for research projects that will help farmers cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Bioresource Engineering professors Grant Clark听 and Shiv Prasher, along with colleagues Dr. Maryam Kargar (Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Manager), Masters student Marcelo Frosi, Dr.
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Harry Pelissero is the general manager of Egg Farmers of Ontario, which has been working with Michael Ngadi, a professor of bioresource engineering at 海角社区, to develop a machine that selects female eggs before they're hatched.
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There was good news all around for the Quebec agri-food sector in the recent provincial budget.
Before that beautiful salmon filet lands on your plate, a lot of less appetizing stuff gets stripped away: By one estimate, the global seafood industry produces 64 million metric tons of waste each year. A new study suggests a potentially sweeter fate for all those heads and guts: They can be turned into a coal-like substance called hydrochar, which could be used as fuel or added to soil to improve fertility and sequester carbon (Energy Fuels 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5b01671).
Chaque ann茅e, des millions de poussins m芒les, jug茅s sans valeur par l'industrie des poules pondeuses, sont euthanasi茅s d猫s leur sortie听de l'oeuf. Une pratique que l'Allemagne veut cesser d'ici 2017, et 脿 laquelle une myst茅rieuse invention de l'Universit茅 海角社区 pourrait mettre fin....Au Qu茅bec, l'Universit茅 海角社区 planche aussi secr猫tement sur une technologie semblable.
