/channels/taxonomy/term/22978/all en /channels/channels/news/preventing-spread-plant-pandemics-331095 <p>Plant diseases don’t stop at national borders and miles of oceans don’t prevent their spread, either. That’s why plant disease surveillance, improved detection systems, and global predictive disease modeling are necessary to mitigate future disease outbreaks and protect the global food supply, according to a team of researchers in a new commentary published in <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022239118"><i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</i></a>.</p> Fri, 21 May 2021 19:59:50 +0000 webfull 170740 at /channels /channels/channels/news/covid-19-qa-pascal-theriault-canadian-food-security-during-pandemic-322149 <p>"Our food supply chain is a highly efficient mature system, but it has been knocked off balance by the crisis... In a way, we went from being on cruise control to hitting traffic."</p> <p>In recent days, we’ve seen major meat processing plants shutting down because of COVID-19 outbreaks. Farmers are struggling because foreign workers can’t come into the country to plant or harvest crops. Are Canadians facing shortages and rising prices at the grocery store?</p> Thu, 14 May 2020 17:26:13 +0000 webfull 160684 at /channels