Resources

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Spotlight

Interdisciplinary investigations into timely issues relevant to food systems.

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COVID-19 + Agri-Food Webinars

Recorded webinars on COVID-19 and agri-food for insights during disruption.

Reports

Read the 2020 Food Price Report and past years' predictions.

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Community Partnerships

Community engaged projects are collaboration between partner organizations and o…

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Feeding 9 Billion: The Card Game

Are you up for the challenge? Play the Feeding 9 Billion card game.

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Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards

Nominations for the 2021 Arrell Global Food Innovation Awards open December 1st,…

A Bite’s Archives

The home to Arrell Food Institute's newsletter, A Bite

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Bioplastics

Solution or just another pile of waste?

Food Security

Why do 800 million go hungry?

COVID-19

As the globe deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, our food systems face severe disruption.

Agro-forestry

What role can agro-forestry play in climate change mitigation?

Adapting agriculture to climate change

Three ways to agriculture can adapt and mitigate climate change.

Food Waste

One third of all food produced is lost or wasted.

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Evan Fraser

Director, Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph

Maria Corradini

Maria Corradini

Arrell Chair in Food Quality

Simon Somogyi

Arrell Chair in the Business of Food

Philip Loring

Arrell Chair in Food, Policy and Society

Arrell Food Fellows

Arrell Fellows are colleagues who collaborate with AFI on resources, events and …

Two graduate students, who have graduate opportunities with Arrell Food Institute and Food from Thought, stand in a dairy barn

Graduate Opportunities

Preparing tomorrow's agri-food leaders.

Policy perspectives

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A Canadian Conversation on Global Diets

Diets that are intentionally curated for healthy people and planet are being referred to around the world as ‘global diets’.

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Research Update: Future Food Systems

Investigating the socio-economic impacts and sustainability of future food product systems is the overarching theme of the three SSHRC grants awarded to Arrell Food Institute researchers this year.

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Canadian Food Policy

Canada's Food University

Feeding 9 Billion

Videos, games, and graphic novels on issues of food, agriculture and hunger, glo…

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Food From Thought: Agricultural Systems for a Healthy Planet

A $76.7 million agri-food research program at the University of Guelph.

Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance

A decades-long partnership with OMAFRA enabling innovative research and educatio…

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Soils at Guelph

An effort to increase facilitate collaboration and knowledge exchange among stak…

Ontario Agricultural College

The Ontario Agricultural College is internationally renowned for its research, t…

Ontario Veterinary College

OVC is a recognized international leader in veterinary education, service, and r…

Dairy at Guelph

Improving dairy research and outreach at the University of Guelph through enhanc…

The Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy

Providing independent, credible, and timely policy analysis with respect to soci…

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Food Map

The Food Map is a catalogue of University of Guelph research representing about 2,500 completed and ongoing research projects related to food. To learn more please go to the Food Map page or visit the Food Map.

Video Transcripts

Descriptive transcripts for Food Institute videos can be found here.