/macdonald/taxonomy/term/5958/all en /macdonald/channels/news/palm-oil-giants-push-out-smallholders-guatemala-deforestation-risks-remain-354383 <p>Guatemala is now the third-largest palm oil producer after Malaysia and Indonesia (which produce 88% of the global supply) and is often seen as a more sustainable alternative. Today, more than 60% of Guatemala’s plantations are certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). High certification rates are largely attributed to plantations owned by a handful of producers, making it easier to certify large chunks of the industry, according to RSPO.</p> Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:03:17 +0000 charly.blais@mcgill.ca 1617273 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/palm-oil-plantations-and-deforestation-guatemala-certifying-products-sustainable-no-panacea-349274 <p>Palm oil, which can be found in roughly half of all packaged supermarket products, is notorious for causing deforestation and biodiversity loss. Efforts to curtail the damage have largely focused on voluntary environmental certification programs that label qualifying palm-oil sources as "sustainable."</p> Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:50:15 +0000 charly.blais@mcgill.ca 1369946 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/event/tised-talks-presents-tracking-corporate-actors-across-space-and-time-345989 <h5 style="text-align:center">TISED Talks<br /> <em>Sustainability in Engineering and Design Seminar Series</em></h5> <p style="text-align:center">presents</p> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 16:07:45 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 1197737 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/mac-alumni-win-homegrown-innovation-challenge-342941 <p>Hydroponic strawberry growers and Co-founders of Vertité, <b>Ophelia Sarakinis</b> (FMT’19) and <b>Phillip Rosenbaum</b> (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)’19, MSc.’21) and their partners have just won the first phase of the Homegrown Innovation Challenge, a “six-year, $33-million initiative from the Weston Family Foundation to future-proof food production in Canada.”</p> Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:42:25 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 1041913 at /macdonald