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Using slow-ripening techniques to reduce soft fruit waste

Whether the apples you eat come from ten kilometres away or a thousand, they most likely followed similar paths to get into your hands, from harvest, storage, or transport. Despite improvements in food storage and transport, up to 40% of all picked fruits are wasted, in part due to their perishable nature. In communities where fruit … Continued

Learning in motion: Presenting U of G research at the annual CGIAR gender conference in New Delhi, India

Dr. Silvia Sarapura-Escobar and SEDRD graduate students (Nicole Cupolo, Margarita Fontecha, Charlotte Potter, and Regan Zink) attended the CGIAR Gender Conference in New Delhi, India to present their work on gender-based violence in agricultural streams of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program. The key finding of the group’s research was that gender-based violence in agricultural streams of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is interwoven into the web of structural and systemic violence faced by temporary foreign workers both in Canada and their home countries.