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Stuart Smyth

@stuartsmyth66

I hold the Agri-Food Innovation & Sustainability Enhancement Chair at USask. Interested in sustainability, agriculture, innovation, food & benefits of biotech.

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Data from 2010–2017 U.S. food recalls (2,721 observations) shows organic products are recalled at a higher rate than conventional ones, when adjusted for sales volume. Organic foods made up about 1% of the U.S. food supply but accounted for a disproportionate share of recalls,

Data from 2010–2017 U.S. food recalls (2,721 observations) shows organic products are recalled at a higher rate than conventional ones, when adjusted for sales volume. Organic foods made up about 1% of the U.S. food supply but accounted for a disproportionate share of recalls,
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Supply management isn't just bad for consumers and bad for free trade, it also screws over the West - new from me in the Calgary Herald: calgaryherald.com/opinion/column…

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Scalable #CRISPR-Based Gene Editing Improves Tomato Crop Traits 🍅🧬 genengnews.com/topics/genome-… | "Researchers from Tel Aviv University have developed a genetic editing method tailored to crop plants to influence various traits in #tomato plants, including the taste and shape of the

Scalable #CRISPR-Based Gene Editing Improves Tomato Crop Traits 🍅🧬 genengnews.com/topics/genome-… | "Researchers from Tel Aviv University have developed a genetic editing method tailored to crop plants to influence various traits in #tomato plants, including the taste and shape of the
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With Bill C-202, Parliament chose to protect supply management and the dairy sector—which represents less than 1% of our economy. In doing so, it effectively threw the other 99% under the bus.

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Pleased to have a new article published on wheat R&D in Western Canada. There is a high adoption rate of new varieties, but $3-5 million could be annually saved from varieties that aren't licensed. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

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With changes to Canadian productivity, prices, and competitiveness in the last 50 years, should we start reconsidering the role of supply management in Canadian agricultural markets? Learn more from Stuart Smyth in today's repost from Macdonald-Laurier Institute - mailchi.mp/8c17459b174a/m…

With changes to Canadian productivity, prices, and competitiveness in the last 50 years, should we start reconsidering the role of supply management in Canadian agricultural markets? Learn more from <a href="/stuartsmyth66/">Stuart Smyth</a> in today's repost from <a href="/MLInstitute/">Macdonald-Laurier Institute</a> - mailchi.mp/8c17459b174a/m…
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Kicking off the Food and Agriculture Organization #Biotech Conference in Rome! 🔹 09:30–11:00: Opening Plenary – Biotechnologies for sustainable agrifood systems 🔹 11:15–12:30: Panel discussion – Looking at the Future 🎥 Watch live: buff.ly/I8xTtpT #AgInnovation FAO Director-General QU Dongyu FAO Chief Scientist

Kicking off the <a href="/FAO/">Food and Agriculture Organization</a> #Biotech Conference in Rome!
🔹 09:30–11:00: Opening Plenary – Biotechnologies for sustainable agrifood systems
🔹 11:15–12:30: Panel discussion – Looking at the Future

🎥 Watch live: buff.ly/I8xTtpT
#AgInnovation

<a href="/FAODG/">FAO Director-General QU Dongyu</a> <a href="/FAOScienceChief/">FAO Chief Scientist</a>
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Very pleased to be attending the FAO conference on biotechnology and to be able to provide facts on the environmental and economical benefits of GM crops. It will be important to refute the lies being spread by environmental NGOs.

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FAO Director General says that biotechnology will be crucial for the future of sustainable food production. It's great to hear the FAO utterly refute the lies spread by Greenpeace International Friends of the Earth International Sierra Club and other unethical activist eNGOs.

FAO Director General says that biotechnology will be crucial for the future of sustainable food production. It's great to hear the FAO utterly refute the lies spread by <a href="/Greenpeace/">Greenpeace International</a> <a href="/FoEint/">Friends of the Earth International</a> <a href="/SierraClub/">Sierra Club</a> and other unethical activist eNGOs.
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FAO Director General tells FAO Biotech Conference delegates that the future of food systems will not transform with biotechnology. It's great to hear such fact based arguments expressed by FAO.

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Brazil is producing more food, using less land due to the adoption of GM crops - Carlos Goulart, Brazil Secretary of Agriculture. Producing more food using less land is the cornerstone of sustainable food production.

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GM crops provide benefits to food production & environmental benefits like reduced pesticide use - Victor Manuel Villalobos Arambula, former Secretary of Mexico's Ministry of Agriculture. Now that he's no longer a government official, he utterly refutes Mexico's anti-GM view.

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Biotech regulations need to be science-based - Victor Arambula, former Mexico Secretary for Agriculture. This statement completely refutes Mexico's political opposition to GM crops, confirming their opposition is 100% politically-based. Great to have this public statement.

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Gene editing will allow for increasing a plants nutrition genes, helping to alleviate nutritional deficiencies - Louise Fresco, former President of Wageningen University & FAO Assistant DG.

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Public-private partnerships are going to be vital to improving food production, innovation & technologies that contribute to climate mitigation. This sentiment expressed by both developing country farmer organizations & private sector companies. Governments need to embrace this.

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The opening of #SB62 today marks a significant step on the path to COP30 Brasil. And in her op-ed for global development masthead Devex, our President & CEO Emily Rees argues that this is exactly the moment for a pro-innovation agrifood vision. 👇 devex.com/news/sponsored…

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The future of sustainable food production will be based on biotech public-private partnerships, as is evidenced by this slide. A 25% yield increase is hugely beneficial for small landholder farmers.

The future of sustainable food production will be based on biotech public-private partnerships, as is evidenced by this slide. A 25% yield increase is hugely beneficial for small landholder farmers.
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It's evidence like this which confirms 33-54% yield increase through biotech research that utterly refutes that agro-ecology is a solution for feeding future populations. Organics only offers continued food insecurity, malnourishment and starvation.

It's evidence like this which confirms 33-54% yield increase through biotech research that utterly refutes that agro-ecology is a solution for feeding future populations. Organics only offers continued food insecurity, malnourishment and starvation.