ɬ﷬

News

Agriculture programs change with the times

Published: 28 February 2020

Agriculture faculties are becoming some of the most exciting hubs of interdisciplinary collaboration on Canadian campuses.

...For a long time, Canada’s university-level agricultural programs looked to be tracking with that general decline. Jim Fyles is a professor in the faculty of agricultural and environmental sciences at ɬ﷬, where he also holds the Tomlinson Chair in Forest Ecology. When he came to ɬ﷬ in 1988, he recalls that “agricultural enrolment was in freefall. … It was obvious that almost no parent aspired for their child to be farmer.”

Back to top