2019-07-24 10:45:07
Fanshawe College in Ontario has received nearly $2 million over five years from the federal government to establish a research hub focused on the agri-food industry.
The Centre for Bioeconomy will be established with the college’s recently opened Centre for Advanced Research and Innovation in Biotechnology (CARIB).
“While federal and provincial policy looks to grow the agri-food production sector, producers face barriers to innovation that hamper growth, such as delayed technology adoption and insufficient support for product development and commercialization. Fanshawe’s Centre for Bioeconomy will help to address these barriers,” the college stated in a news release.
The centre will focus on plant and soil health, food innovation and turning agri-food waste into bioproducts, with the goal of accelerating product development and commercialization, as well as improving knowledge diffusion and technology adoption.
©Annex Biomass_CFI_OF. View All Articles.