During the first four years of 2020, food was a frequent news maker. Consumers had many challenges feeding their families, whether it was supply chain issues, high food costs or the alarming rates of food waste. As well, food security became a commonly used term in the 2020s. The 1996 World Food Summit defined food […] Read more
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New tech promises to reduce food waste
REGINA — Two Ontario companies were named winners in the novel technologies stream of the federal government’s Food Waste Reduction Challenge. Clean Works Inc. and Genecis Biodindustries Inc. will each get up to $1 million to take their solutions to the next level. Clean Works is based in St. Catharines and created a solution using […] Read more
Cattle may help recycle food waste
A new film produced by the Canadian Cattle Association highlights how feedlots are using diverse feed sources
Glacier FarmMedia – Canada wastes about half the food it produces, but cattle can convert that waste into protein production. To highlight that ability, the next documentary in a five-part series from the Canadian Cattle Association focuses on feedlots and their role in recycling food waste. “There are concerns folks have about the environment and […] Read more
Oat starch could help solve food waste problem
A researcher hopes a protective coating made out of oat starch can be used to extend the shelf life of fruit and vegetables
WINNIPEG — Fruit and vegetables are to blame for much of the food waste in Canada. Of all the household food items that are thrown in the trash across the country, vegetables represent 30 percent of total food waste (by weight) and fruit is 15 percent, says LoveFoodHateWaste.ca. The website, operated by the National Zero […] Read more
Challenge finalists tackle food waste reduction
Six finalists in Canada’s Food Waste Reduction Challenge were announced Jan. 16. Federal agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau revealed the names of the six in the Novel Technologies stream, chosen from the 18 semi-finalists announced a year ago, during a virtual press conference. At that time each semi-finalist received $100,000 to build a prototype of their […] Read more
Innovators take on food waste challenge
Twelve organizations have been named finalists in the federal government’s Food Waste Reduction Challenge. The 12 commercial and non-commercial businesses were selected from 343 applicants across Canada and other countries in the challenge’s business model stream. The focus is to develop solutions that prevent or divert food waste anywhere in the food system. There is […] Read more
Feds select food waste semi-finalists
Eighteen companies from across Canada have been named semi-finalists in a competition to find new technology to reduce food waste. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced the selections under the Novel Technologies Streams of the waste reduction challenge. They include several organizations working in the agricultural space. For example, Carbon Lock Technologies Inc. from Winnipeg […] Read more
Food waste an issue for people, planet
The amount of food wasted in Canada grows along with citizens’ expectations that cheap, abundant food will be available at grocery stores 12 hours per day, seven days per week. Canadians can and do buy nearly anything they desire when poverty isn’t a factor. Unfortunately for the planet, they throw away more than 10 percent […] Read more
New report finds 58 percent of food is wasted
University of Calgary researchers determine that most waste occurs at the consumer level rather than in agriculture
Canadians need to change their culture of disposability and stop wasting an estimated 58 percent of the country’s food each year, says an expert. The annual value of this wasted food has been estimated at about $49.5 billion, said Kerri Holland, an affiliated researcher at the University of Calgary’s Simpson Centre for Agricultural and Food […] Read more
Will the COVID crisis cause a food revolution?
Innovative technologies are waiting on the shelf, but will they finally be embraced?
There’s been lots of blather about exciting food and agriculture industry technological innovations. “Smart” everything has been talked about for more than a decade. My newspaper has published dozens of stories about the possibilities of blockchain. The “internet of things” is a term buzzing away at every farm and ag conference out there. But it’s […] Read more
