This is Food Waste Action Week and the federal minister of Agriculture says over half of Canada’s food supply is wasted. Marie-Claude Bibeau says the wastage happens at every stage of the food supply chain, harvesting, storage, processing, transport, distribution, retail and at home. She says if food waste were a country, it would […]
A new angus Reid survey says four in five Canadians have changed food buying habits due to rising costs. Three in five or 62 percent are eating out less and one quarter are drinking less alcohol. A significant number of Canadians are making changes to what they put in their grocery cart to save […]
Regina-based Protein Industries Canada is setting up a pool of money to help develop plant-based food processing in this country. CEO Bill Gruel says Protein Industries Canada and its partners are starting with 2.5 million dollars and hopes to establish a 200 million dollar equity capital fund. He says he’ll be talking to institutional […]
The University of Saskatchewan and city of Saskatoon are looking at ways to divert edible food from the landfill. A new joint study found ways to minimize food being discarded. It is estimated one third of the food produced world-wide and 30 to 40 percent of all food produced in Canada each year is […]
A new bison herd has been successfully established the The Key first nation near Norquay, about 290 kilometers northeast of Regina. The 40 plains bison marks a historic moment for the Key first nation, which has worked closely with Parks Canada and the Nature Conservancy of Canada to return the culturally significant animals to […]
Canadians will be paying more for food in 2022. That is according to the ‘Food Price Report 2022’, conducted by researchers with Dalhousie University, the University of Guelph, the University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia. The report forecasts an overall food price increase of five to seven per cent for the coming […]
The Saskatchewan government is providing 3.2 million dollars to the Global Institute for Food Security at the U of S. Agriculture minister David Marit says the support goes to the new engineering biology centre. The centre will attract investments and companies looking to set up new research and development in the agri-food sector. He says […]
The Global Institute for Food Security at the University of Saskatchewan is moving into a second growth phase. Founded in 2012 in a public-private partnership between Nutrien, the Saskatchewan Government and the University, the Institute is designed to build on this province’s strength in agriculture. Current initiatives underway as part of the new phase of […]
The food banks across Saskatchewan have received a big boost from a fund-raiser campaign matched by Viterra. Last month Viterra matched any donation to a maximum of 100 thousand dollars. The food banks raised 150 thousand dollars, bringing last months total to 250 thousand dollars. The executive director of Food Banks of Saskatchewan, Laurie […]
The Saskatchewan Stock Growers are welcoming a federal initiative to raise public trust in Canada’s food system. The federal government is providing $244,000 to the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity to develop tools to enable food producers to share their stories with consumers. Stock Growers manager Chad McPherson says it is important to educate consumers […]
