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Martin H. Entz

Professor
Cropping Systems and Natural Systems Agriculture

Department: Manitoba

Specialty: agricultural development, agroecology, crop management, fertilizers, organic agriculture

Life Cycle Analysis of Food Systems

A Student Communication Piece By Sage Mosgrove, undergraduate at Dalhousie University My name is Sage and I’m an undergrad student from Dalhousie University, and a member of the CREATE Climate-Smart Soils program. This summer I assisted Drs. Peter Tyedmers and…

21 Jan

Dear Government From, Students

An exercise in policy briefs As part of the CREATE Climate-Smart Soils program students participate in an intensive week-long core course where they learn the ins and outs of climate-smart soils. For our Year 1 students, the core course took…

20 Nov

We are a national program with an international team of scholars

Local research program? Nope. We represent over half the world’s continents Within five months of its first year, CREATE-CSS has already brought together students and researchers from around the world. Between our first 12 students, we have representation from North…

13 Aug

What are Climate-Smart Soils?

You may be asking, what ARE climate-smart soils? Climate-Smart Soils: A concept The concept of climate-smart soils originated in the 2016 Nature paper by Paustian et al. The key is that soils have the capacity to sequester carbon and remove…

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Jess Nicksy, MSc student with @SystemsAg_UM and @NSERC_CRSNG #SmartSoils, talks about her research on using struvite, frass, and anaerobic digestate as alternatives to conventional fertilizer in an effort to create a circular food system in this interview with @MBCooperator.

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Urban waste shows promise as fertilizer. https://www.manitobacooperator.ca/news-opinion/news/urban-waste-shows-promise-as-fertilizer/

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16 Oct

That is it for our coverage on the @lcafood2020 conference! We really enjoyed watching the presentations and tuning into the live discussions. Both of us learned a lot regarding spatial resolution, differing methods and data analysis, and new technologies!

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16 Oct

The conversation of food packaging and alternatives also brings to mind biobased packaging. How can this be considered in LCAs?

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16 Oct

The question of over- or under- packaging can be tricky when you consider food waste, especially for consumers. Leo Breedveld has conducted various LCAs on food production and packaging systems to inform consideration for different food packaging scenarios and decision making.

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16 Oct

Erica Montemayor presented on her project in improving manure management and treatment to close the agricultural nutrient cycle in an environmentally friendly way. They are conducting LCAs on 3 manure management scenarios in hopes to reduce fertilizer use and GHG emissions.

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Specialty: agricultural development