Food Farm Talk

We talk to Brent Preston of TheNewFarm on the values of organic farming, short supply chains, growing what people eat, building communities through farms and customers with shared value.

https://thenewfarm.ca/

Emily interviews Natalie Vasilivetsky, University of Guelph campus sustainability coordinator, about Composting and the circular economy. 

More information: 

https://www.uoguelph.ca/sustainability/composting-0

https://theontarion.com/2019/07/29/campus-composting-program-evolves-into-a-circular-food-economy-that-feeds-the-university/

Farm sustainability will be the focus of a number of episodes this year. But what is farm sustainability? And what does it mean for farmers and consumers. Host Abdul discusses this with Paul Smith, who will be the guest host on farm sustainability issues. Paul worked in environment management for three decades including half of that on environmental sustainability for Ontario farms. Sustainability includes environmental, economic and social elements and so in complex to assess.

Some links on sustainable agriculture:

https://www.agrifoodsustainability.ca/

https://crsb.ca/

http://sustainablecrops.ca/

Abdul talks with Lenore Newman, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Environment at the University of the Fraser Valley, where she is currently an Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment. She also serves as Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute.

https://www.ufv.ca/geography/faculty-and-staff/faculty-members/newman-lenore.htm

Hear about a project where several Guelph graduate students worked with the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario on Climate Change issues among their members. Victoria Lesy, Matt Orton, Abdul-Rahim Abdulai, Nicole Unterlander, Abigail Van Reisen from the Arrell Food Institute worked with the EFAO.

More information:

https://arrellfoodinstitute.ca/feedback-resilience-in-ag/

https://efao.ca/climate-change-and-ontario-agriculture-introducing-a-series-of-farmer-case-studies/

Abdul and Emily talk about with Jeanna Rex about Food from Thought research assistant program at the Arrell Food Institute

More information:

https://www.foodfromthought.ca/training/

https://arrellfoodinstitute.ca/grad/

Emily Duncan talks about her research on Precision Agriculture in Ontario.  From interviews with grain farmers, dairy farmers, and precision agriculture technology retailers she found potential social consequences of digital data-gathering technologies in agriculture.

More information:

https://ontariograinfarmer.ca/2018/12/01/the-consequences-of-new-technology/