Laila Benkrima – The Conversation

A giant wine bottle is displayed at the Summerhill Pyramid Winery in Kelowna, B.C., in Feb. 2024. Home to more than 180 licensed grape wineries and known as “the wine capital of Canada,” the Okanagan Valley is also nationally renowned for fruit orchards that produce apples, peaches and cherries. (Aaron Hemens/IndigiNews via AP)

May 21, 2024

Glass half empty? What climate change means for Canada’s wine industry

Laila Benkrima, Simon Fraser University

Global warming poses great challenges to Canada’s wine industry. But in these challenges lie equally great opportunities to build a better, and more sustainable, wine industry.

Our grocery stores are increasingly filled with ultra-processed foods, which have little to no nutritional value and a huge environmental impact. (Nathalia Rosa)

September 24, 2023

Ultra‑processed foods are not only bad for our bodies, their production damages our environments

Laila Benkrima, Simon Fraser University

Ultra-processed foods are bad for our health and our planet and must be central to any efforts to reduce our carbon emissions, and waistlines.

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