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Using innovative technologies like Bitcoin and automation can help protect our food supply chains from disruptions like the one caused by the current coronavirus pandemic.
Food is essential to survival. It is also essential to identity. During times of national crisis like the coronavirus pandemic and in the historical landscape, food issues become prominent.
Considering language from a biological perspective led researchers to the idea that new food processing technologies affected neolithic human beings' jaws – and allowed new language sounds to emerge.
Canada does well growing crops and raising livestock, but it's missed the boat in developing its own popular food brands. As preferences change, Canada has a chance to shine in the agri-food sector.
African countries, like Nigeria and Ethiopia, increased their food production using a system-wide approach, and not the traditional reliance on isolated projects.
The minimum wage is rising in many parts of Canada, but it masks the impact of seismic changes to the agriculture, food and retail industries brought about by new technologies.
The demand for agricultural products in Africa is expected to rise over the next 35 years due to factors such as population growth, urbanisation, economic growth and changing diets.
Division between the have and have nots is likely to widen – and food is one area where many will go without.
Food labels seem to provide all the information a thoughtful consumer needs, so counting calories should be simple. But things get tricky because food labels tell only half the story. A calorie is a measure…
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Director, Agri-Food Analytics Lab, Professor in Food Distribution and Policy, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Biological Anthropology, Harvard University
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Visiting Fellow in Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
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Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Economics, University of Pretoria
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
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Associate Professor of History, University of Regina
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Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zürich
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Professor of General Linguistics, University of Zürich
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Professor and Dean, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Manitoba
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Professor and Dean of The Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph
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Professor and Dean, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia
