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Articles published in 2024

Articles published in 2023

Agri-tech conference in Abbotsford focuses on food security

The Future of Food Production FVC

Edible Magazine article 'Dinner on Mars', featuring Lenore Newman, September 26, 2023

Article, The Common Table, On Food and Education: Lenore Newman

CCA News Release May 2023

On the Coast, radio interview with Lenore Newman May 2023

News article Financial Post

News article April 2023

Articles published in 2022

News article cover, Lenore Newman, CNN News

CBC Ideas News

Dinner on Mars

The Power of Collaboration: Improving Food Security for BC and Beyond, i-Open Group

Our survival is at stake if our food system doesn't change, Lenore Newman and Evan Fraser, Financial Post

5 technologies that will help make the food system carbon neutral

Taste of Abby - 'Vertical Agriculture'
Presented by Tourism Abbotsford, September 2022

Taste of Abby - 'The Abbotsford Food Asset Map'
Presented by Tourism Abbotsford, September 2022

Tools For Tackling Food Insecurity In BC - The I-Open Group Collaborates With UFV

Milk without the cow: Cellular agriculture could be the future of farming, but dairy farmers need help, The Conversation

Du lait sans la vache: l鈥檃griculture cellulaire pourrait 锚tre l鈥檃venir, Radio Canada

Articles published in 2021

Lab-grown聽meats and聽cow-free聽dairy can meet the demand for protein and help address climate聽change, The Conversation

Cellular Agriculture Report Identifies Billions in Annual Economic Opportunity for Canada Over the Next Decade, Ontario Genomics

How the B.C. floods revealed the fragility of Canada鈥檚 food system, Globe and Mail, Lenore Newman

We need people to keep their head Grocers, suppliers struggle to refill empty shelves in flooded BC, The Financial Post, Lenore Newman

The B.C. floods are a mere hint of what climate change could do to the food supply, Maclean鈥檚, Lenore Newman

Indoor farming could improve B.C. food security amid climate change, Lenore Newman, CBC News

Abbotsford farmer says he's first in B.C. to grow saffron, Lenore Newman, CBC News

Race Against Climate Change Podcast, Episode 1: How We Eat, Lenore Newman

Evan, F. & Newman, L. (August 26, 2021).These two farming methods can feed the planet and help the environment - but they need to get along. The Financial Post