The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is seeking your feedback on how to further strengthen its regulations, services and programs in the agriculture and agri-food sector.
All the articles and reports describing the process of the 2015 Review of the Canadian Organic Standards, from the launch of the review until the publication of the 2015 COS, are available under this section.
InfoBio, the newsletter of the OFC, is published since 2010. Some interesting articles (2015-2020) describing Canadian organic issues are archived under that section.
Sustainable vegetable production can shape the agricultural landscape: Sean Smukler is building an online tool to enhance nutrient management planning and enhance land stewardship.
Martine Dorais tells us about major advances in fertilization, growing media and substrates, lighting and effluent control in organic greenhouse production systems.
Dr. Jennifer Mitchell Fetch, from AAFC, describes how, over 17 years of work, she has created two new oat cultivars selected to thrive under organic management.
Dr. Peter Tyedmers leads a valuable research activity to estimate the level of greenhouse gas emissions caused by Canadian organic field crop production systems.
Dr. Moussa Diarra, from AAFC, has found exciting results in his OSC3 research activity when feeding organic cranberry and wild blueberry pomace to organic broiler chickens.
Kimberley Schneider and Henry Wilson are conducting research on the use of struvite derived from wastewater to address phosphorus deficiency in organic soils.
Pollinators improve ecosystems. Jason Gibbs looks at how strips of flowers along the edges of field crops can influence their abundance and diversity.
Dr. Simon Lachance is looking for biopesticides to control greenhouse pests. He extracts saponins from tomato crop residues to test the properties of this bioactive molecule.
Caroline Provost and François Dumont are experimenting with predatory bugs to eliminate the tarnished plant bug in strawberry fields and reduce the use of synthetic pesticides.
