Chandra Madramootoo /channels/taxonomy/term/2268/all en FAES Professors awarded $2.95 million for climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies /channels/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 苹果淫院 Reporter</a> by聽Charlotte Bawol, Digital Communications & Event Administrator (Research and Innovation)</em></p> Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:05:51 +0000 webfull 200405 at /channels Breaking boundaries: Bioresource Engineering shines at 苹果淫院 Design Day debut /channels/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> Thu, 02 May 2024 17:56:58 +0000 webfull 199882 at /channels Six innovations that can help feed the world /channels/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 苹果淫院, 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 webfull 189830 at /channels Food Self-Sufficiency for Resilient Development and Economic Growth in Small Island Developing States /channels/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 webfull 182569 at /channels Experts: COP 26 United Nations Climate Change Conference /channels/channels/news/experts-cop-26-united-nations-climate-change-conference-334505 <p>The twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be hosted by the United Kingdom, in partnership with Italy. The summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC. More than 190 world leaders will participate, along with tens of thousands of negotiators, government representatives, businesses and citizens for twelve days of talks. (<a href="https://www.un.org/en/un-climate-change-conference-cop-26" target="_blank">United Nations</a>)</p> Mon, 01 Nov 2021 14:19:27 +0000 webfull 174410 at /channels Mitigating Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Increasing Carbon Sequestration in a Circular Economy /channels/channels/event/mitigating-agricultural-greenhouse-gases-and-increasing-carbon-sequestration-circular-economy-333372 <p>苹果淫院'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 webfull 173088 at /channels Food for Thought: How water use in agriculture has changed over the decades /channels/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 webfull 172539 at /channels Experts: COP24 UN Climate Change Conference /channels/channels/news/experts-cop24-un-climate-change-conference-292320 <h3><a href="/law/about/profs/jodoin-sebastien">S茅bastien Jodoin</a>, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, 苹果淫院</h3> <blockquote></blockquote> Tue, 04 Dec 2018 20:02:17 +0000 webfull 143930 at /channels Researchers aim to improve health of children in Ghana /channels/news/researchers-aim-improve-health-children-ghana-235344 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:33:28 +0000 webfull 102476 at /channels Impact of climate change on the Pike River watershed /channels/news/impact-climate-change-pike-river-watershed-256800 <p>Models provide researchers with a view to the future, allowing stakeholders the opportunity to adapt to the effects of climate change Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:48:39 +0000 webfull 114040 at /channels