Date & time
Friday, September 13, 2024
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
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Canada’s Role in the Future of Food
with Dr. Lenore Newman
Cost
This event is free
Website
Where
Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics
7141 Sherbrooke W.
Room GE-110
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Lenore Newman
Canada is a leading food-producing nation, and supports a robust innovation environment that supports agrifood technology development from field to table. Yet in a time of climate disruption, our food security is far from secured. In this talk I will explore emerging areas of agrifood technology and policy that will shape the future of food in Canada and abroad, including controlled environment agriculture, precision fermentation, cellular agriculture, and genomics. Policy, however, remains a stumbling block for Canada, and I will discuss how proper climate change policy and innovation policy can unlock the potential for made in Canada innovation. Both technology and policy innovation are critical to build just and resilient food systems that will feed Canadians and the world nutritious, affordable food.
Lenore Newman
Lenore is the Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley where she holds a full professorship and research chair in food and agriculture innovation. Lenore is a past Canada Research Chair in Food Security and the Environment and an emeritus member of the Royal Society of Canada's New College. Lenore consults with industry in the areas of controlled environment agriculture, alternative proteins, and rare fruit and vegetables. She is the author of Speaking in Cod Tongues and the award-winning Lost Feast, and her third book, Dinner on Mars, coauthored with Dr. Evan Fraser, was published in 2022. Dr. Newman sat on the BC Premier's Food Security Task Force, and she holds a BSc in Physics from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD in Environmental Studies from York University.
Hosted by the SynBioApps NSERC-CREATE program.
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