Alfons Weersink and Mike von Massow explain how the war in Ukraine will contribute to rising food prices and how global food security will be affected.
Monika Bischof draws on the experiences of subsistence farmers in rural Ethiopia to deepen our understanding of the complexities that cause child marriage. “The value of my research comes from its potential to one day inform productive policy that eliminates child marriage in Ethiopia and in other nations too,” Monika who is advised by Assistant Professor Yu Na Lee expresses her hope that her work will have an impact.
The University of Guelph’s Canadian Agri-Marketing Association (CAMA) Student Chapter placed second overall in the 2022 National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) Student Marketing Competition held April 5-7th in Kansas City, MO.
The 2022 competition, which returned to an in-person format after two years online, saw the University of Guelph CAMA team compete against 20 American agriculture universities.
The war in Ukraine is a humanitarian disaster caused by an unjustifiable aggression by Russia. The world is focused, rightly, on the impacts on the Ukrainian people. There are, however, ripple effects of the disruption of the Ukrainian agricultural economy being felt across the world. Wheat exporting countries in North Africa and the Middle East will see shortages and significant price inflation. Countries like Argentina are constraining exports in an effort to keep food prices low for their urban populations.
In this episode Mike speaks with Dr. Alfons Weersink, Professor in the Department of Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics at the University of Guelph, about GHG emissions from crop production. Alfons provides a perspective on the economic returns to fertilizer application and the implications for emissions from crop production. He also provides some insight into policy initiatives to help farmers adapt and reduce emissions.