Academic Enhancements
Healthy, safe, secure and sustainable food and bioproducts:
Population demands, increasing fuel costs and growing concerns about climate change mean the provision of safe and healthy food on a global scale and in an environmentally-sustainable way is a major concern in the 21st Century. The University of Manitoba is wellplaced to contribute innovative solutions to these challenges.
The University of Manitoba’s strengths in this area include: sustainable cropping and animal production systems; entomology; biofuels; functional foods and nutraceuticals; and post-harvest technology, particularly as it relates to grain storage. Facilities such as the Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals, the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment, the George Weston Ltd. Sensory and Food Research Centre and the Canadian Wheat Board Centre for Grain Storage Research all offer unique, state-of-the-art laboratories and technology for further research in these areas.