[BCFSN] Leading voice on food waste puts emphasis on cities to find solutions...plus some posts from the archive

[Pamela Zevit]

Tammara Soma of the Food Systems lab, who is researching solutions for food waste problems, has
“just relocated from Toronto to Burnaby to teach at British Columbia’s Simon Fraser University,
and will continue her Food Systems Lab - a program she started in Toronto that’s dedicated to
finding pragmatic solutions to food waste - from there. But what really makes Ms. Soma stand out as
a crusader against food waste is a knack for bringing disparate players together - everyone from
provincial cabinet ministers and food company executives to activists and farm workers - to work
alongside her.”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-leading-voice-on-food-waste-identifies-cities-as-key-
to-finding/



Sweet drink labels leave a sour taste. “We regularly see products being marketed as ‘natural’ or
‘pure’ or any number of other descriptors because your average consumer associates these terms
with being healthy,”…

http://blog.journals.cambridge.org/2018/10/10/sweet-drink-labels-leave-a-sour-taste/



How food companies shape the nutrition research agenda. Corporate sponsorship of research can
introduce bias in how it is designed, conducted or published. These biases tend to produce research
that favours the sponsor’s product by overemphasizing (or maximizing) benefits and / or
underemphasizing (minimizing) harms.
http://blog.journals.cambridge.org/2018/09/11/how-food-companies-shape-the-nutrition-research-agenda
/



Insect pollination is at least as important for marketable crop yield as plant quality in a seed
crop. Across five crop lines, bumblebees delivered most pollination services, while other wild
pollinator groups made less frequent but nevertheless substantial contributions. Honeybees actively
managed for pollination services did not make significant contributions. Our results show that wild
pollinators are an undervalued agricultural input and managing for enhancing pollinators makes sense
economically in high‐revenue insect‐pollinated cropping systems.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.13150



Industry-Funded Pesticide Data Problematic, Study Shows. Scrutinizing a company’s study on a widely
used pesticide, chlorpyrifos, academic researchers find shortcomings in analyses and public
disclosures of results.

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/industry-funded-pesticide-data-problematic--study-shows-6
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