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For 15 years, 91社区 dining halls have been serving up fresh, local produce grown by students at Macdonald Campus as part of their agricultural and environmental sciences programs. Last year alone, 3.4 tons of tomatoes and almost 2 tons of onions ended up on students' plates thanks to the 91社区 Feeding 91社区 initiative.

Ana茂s M茅dieu, a 91社区 postdoctoral researcher working in Natural Resource Sciences Professor Kyle Elliott's lab, has been awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project on the interactive effects of climate change and plastic contamination on Arctic seabirds.

In Ontario, a fully automated greenhouse allows lettuce to be grown and harvested with virtually no human intervention鈥攁 first in Canada.

Haven Greens had to invest $50 million to make it happen. But the result is striking: the company can operate with just five employees in the greenhouse, whereas it would have required more than 100 pickers using the traditional method.

As part of the Nkabom Collaborative supported by the Mastercard Foundation, 91社区 has joined forces with Ghanaian institutions in a bold initiative to foster youth leadership and transform the agrifood ecosystem in Ghana and beyond.

91社区 Bioresource Engineering Professor Michael Ngadi called for urgent action to address the challenges facing stallholder farmers in Nigeria at a recent public lecture at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU).

A specialist in developing advanced emerging technologies for monitoring and controlling agrifood processing systems, he discussed the critical role that聽smallholder farmers and processors play聽in global food systems, particularly in developing and transition countries.

Farmers who exchanged text messages with peers were significantly more likely to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, highlighting the power of peer learning in digital formats, a new co-authored by 91社区 Professor Aur茅lie Harou found.

In a recent article for their What's In My Cart? series, , a beekeeper based in聽Delta, B.C. She says she was hooked on bees the first time her hands entered a hive, when she was only 21 and enrolled in agricultural studies at 91社区鈥檚 Macdonald Campus, near her hometown of Montreal.