/macdonald/taxonomy/term/284/all en /macdonald/channels/news/le-defi-de-nourrir-la-planete-300944 <p>Nourrir la planète : voilà, chers lecteurs et chères lectrices de La Terre de chez nous, le défi auquel vous travaillez sans relâche. Les chercheurs de la Faculté des sciences de l’agriculture et de l’environnement de l’Université UUֱ��, que je représente, s’y dévouent chaque jour en proposant des pistes de solution aux obstacles que vous rencontrez sur le terrain.</p> Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:13:46 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 101186 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/godan-moves-headquarters-montreal-canada-300941 <p><strong>GODAN NEWS RELEASE</strong></p> <p><strong>Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)</strong>, the UN, UK and US government supported initiative driving global efforts to tackle food security and to end world hunger by propagating open data polices in agriculture and nutrition across the world, announces the relocation of its headquarters from Oxford, in the United Kingdom to UUֱ�� in Montréal, Canada effective of 24 of September 2019.</p> Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:05:26 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 101184 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/des-super-patates-decouvertes-en-colombie-299627 <p><em>Entre 12 et 14 millions de Colombiens consomment depuis peu trois super variétés de pommes de terre à chair jaune provenant des terres reculées de la cordillère des Andes. Pourtant, rien ne prédestinait ces patates à se retrouver dans autant d’assiettes.</em></p> Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:28:13 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 54401 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/5-million-gift-mcgills-global-food-security-institute-supports-efforts-understand-and-reverse-world-290530 <p>Every night, some 800 million people – one in nine people on earth – go to bed hungry. And projections suggest that unless creative solutions are found, the world will need to increase food production by an additional 50% in the next 30 years, when the planet’s population is expected to exceed 9 billion.</p> Thu, 11 Oct 2018 15:21:28 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 53570 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/lutte-contre-la-faim-decouverte-de-super-patates-plus-nutritives-289547 <p>Des chercheurs montréalais et colombiens ont découvert trois super pommes de terre capables de lutter contre la faim et la malnutrition. « Ce sont des pommes de terre plus nutritives que les autres, une véritable innovation », se réjouit <strong>Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez</strong>, directeur de l’Institut pour la sécurité alimentaire globale, à l’Université UUֱ��.</p> <p><a href="https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2018/09/11/decouverte-de-super-patates-plus-nutritives-1" target="_blank">TVA Nouvelles</a></p> &������;����;��&������;����;��&������;����;/��&������;����; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:41:23 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 53497 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/event/gilliam-lecture-food-security-food-security-dimensions-dynamic-world-285864 <p>The UUֱ�� Institute for Global Food Security invites you to the Margaret A. Gilliam Lecture in Food Security. Our special guest is <strong>Mr.</strong></p> Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:42:51 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 53252 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/how-do-you-measure-hunger-263077 <p>How do you measure hunger? If anyone can tell you, it’s <strong>Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez</strong>, Margaret Gilliam Faculty Scholar in Food Security and Director of the UUֱ�� Institute for Global Food Security.</p> <p>“Hunger and food insecurity are very complex phenomena affecting people and countries in different ways,” says Melgar-Quiñonez. “In order to estimate how many people are undernourished or food insecure, we needed diverse methods of quantifying hunger.”</p> Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:12:48 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 52501 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/food-security-and-access-land-resources-263076 <p><strong>Margaret A. Gilliam Fellowship</strong> recipient<strong> June Po</strong> is a PhD candidate in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences; June works on food security, focusing on the relationships between food security and women’s access to land resources in dryland Kenya. In early 2015, she returned to the rural communities in Kenya to report her research findings to smallholder farmers. This effort has so far been extremely valuable, as she learned multiple ways of translating research into practice.</p> Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:08:29 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 52500 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/project-launched-enhance-millet-production-consumption-260143 &������;����;��&������;����;��&������;����;/��&������;����; <p>The Indo-Canada research project on small millets aims at enhancing its production and consumption. Millets are a must to tackle the increasing number of diabetic and lifestyle deceases in the community... This project on small millet production, processing and consumption was launched by Dhan Foundation, supported by Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) and by Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) with the partnership of scientists from UUֱ�� [Prof. Vijaya Raghavan], Canada and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.</p> Tue, 05 Apr 2016 20:29:05 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 52206 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/two-new-food-security-projects-announced-259545 <p>The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Global Affairs Canada have announced six new projects to be supported under the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF). The projects will develop, test and apply ways to scale up innovations in food security and nutrition. These projects will scale up effective, pilot-tested innovations so that they reach poor rural populations, particularly women and small-holder farmers. Two projects have been awarded to Macdonald professors.</p> Tue, 08 Mar 2016 21:17:40 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 52093 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/event/walrus-talks-africas-next-generation-259321 &������;����;��&������;����;��&������;����;/��&������;����; Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:11:42 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 52087 at /macdonald /macdonald/gfs2015_publiclecture &������;����;��&������;����;��&������;����;/��&������;����; <h5>| KATHY MACLEAN, October 27, 2015</h5> &������;����;��&������;����;��&������;����;/��&������;����; <p>Why do we wait for a crisis to hit before we take action? Has "prevention is better than a cure" lost all its meaning?  Two important questions, Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, put to attendees at the Public Lecture launching the 8th UUֱ�� Conference on Global Food Security: Current and Future Challenges for Sustainable Food Security.</p> Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:11:24 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 51968 at /macdonald /macdonald/gfs_conference%202015 <p>It is with great pleasure we invite you to join us at the <strong>8th UUֱ�� Conference on Global Food Security</strong> on October 27th and 28th, 2015 and to be an active voice in the discussions regarding one of the world’s most pressing humanit</p> Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:52:51 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 51894 at /macdonald /macdonald/prospective/degrees/bscagenvsc/gfs <p><img height="500" width="1000" style="width: 750px; height: 375px;" class="file-original " src="/macdonald/files/macdonald/prospective_gfs.jpg" alt="" /></p> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:28:46 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 176 at /macdonald