Chandra Madramootoo /macdonald/taxonomy/term/761/all en FAES Professors awarded $2.95 million for climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies /macdonald/channels/news/faes-professors-awarded-295-million-climate-change-adaptation-and-mitigation-strategies-357625 <p><em>Originally <a href="https://reporter.mcgill.ca/government-of-canada-invests-3m-in-climate-change-adaptation-research-at-mcgill/">published in the 黑料不打烊 Reporter</a> by聽Charlotte Bawol, Digital Communications & Event Administrator (Research and Innovation)</em></p> Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:05:50 +0000 charly.blais@mcgill.ca 1633031 at /macdonald Breaking boundaries: Bioresource Engineering shines at 黑料不打烊 Design Day debut /macdonald/channels/news/breaking-boundaries-bioresource-engineering-shines-mcgill-design-day-debut-357155 <p><big>Generations of Bioresource Engineering students have participated in the BREE 495 capstone design course. What innovative ideas did this year鈥檚 students come up with?</big></p> <p style="text-align:center"><img alt="BREE students pose with their award winning substrate" src="/macdonald/files/macdonald/designday2crop.png" /></p> Wed, 01 May 2024 13:44:46 +0000 charly.blais@mcgill.ca 1629697 at /macdonald Six innovations that can help feed the world /macdonald/channels/news/six-innovations-can-help-feed-world-348471 <p>Around the world, food is grown on land of all sizes and all types, but that diversity means farmers often fail to take into account landscape complexity and soil variability, according to Chandra A. Madramootoo, a professor of Bioresource Engineering at 黑料不打烊 University, in Montreal, Canada.</p> <p>He says that one solution is precision farming, an approach that 鈥渆nables the selection of crops, and chemical and water applications within spatially similar land and soil zones.鈥</p> Fri, 26 May 2023 18:21:51 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 1354721 at /macdonald Food Self-Sufficiency for Resilient Development and Economic Growth in Small Island Developing States /macdonald/channels/event/food-self-sufficiency-resilient-development-and-economic-growth-small-island-developing-states-341962 <p style="text-align:center">Join Moderator Prof. <a href="/bioeng/faculty-and-staff/academic-staff/chandra-madramootoo">Chandra Madramootoo</a> (Bioresource Engineering) and a panel of experts for</p> Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:30:00 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 994337 at /macdonald Mitigating Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Increasing Carbon Sequestration in a Circular Economy /macdonald/channels/event/mitigating-agricultural-greenhouse-gases-and-increasing-carbon-sequestration-circular-economy-333372 <p>黑料不打烊's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences is pleased to host Mitigating Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Increasing Carbon Sequestration in a Circular Economy--an international symposium held under the auspices of the Agricultur</p> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 02:49:45 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 597222 at /macdonald Food for Thought: How water use in agriculture has changed over the decades /macdonald/channels/event/food-thought-how-water-use-agriculture-has-changed-over-decades-332858 <p>Our annual Food for Thought Public Lecture Series is in its 22nd season of bringing timely science topics to the community: our neighbours, alumni, students, staff and faculty!</p> Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:21:06 +0000 katherine.maclean@mcgill.ca 544625 at /macdonald