Industry Partnerships

Dr. Simon Somogyi is a co-investigator with Gale Bozzo from the Ontario Agricultural College on a 3-year, $260,500 NSERC Alliance grant focused on Postharvest Preservation Technologies for Canadian-grown Horticulture as a Strategy to Reduce Food Waste.

Simon’s role will focus on the value chain analysis and investigating business management issues related to the adoption of plant-derived antioxidant products for preservation of highly perishable horticulture.

Industry partners involved in the project are all notfor-profit organizations that span various horticultural producers in Ontario or across Canada. Key partners are Mushrooms Canada; Fresh Vegetable Growers of Ontario; and Berry Growers of Ontario.

Dr. Sara Mann is collaborating with Dr. Ryan Gibson in the Ontario Agricultural College on an OMAFRA Knowledge Translation and Transfer (KTT) project entitled “Rural futures: Mobilizing knowledge and sustaining partnerships”.

This initiative will create an online portal to showcase the knowledge mobilization of rural research conducted at the University of Guelph, ensuring it is translated and mobilized to rural partners in local government, community-based organizations, charities/nonprofits, Indigenous communities, all levels of government, businesses, and other researchers. In addition, the portal will serve as a pathfinder to connect rural partners to rural researchers demonstrating the interconnected nature and mass of rural research conducted at the University of Guelph.