{"id":2215,"date":"2010-04-05T14:27:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2010-04-05T14:28:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:28:27","slug":"ccovi-joins-forces-with-federal-government-to-create-grape-and-wine-research-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/04\/ccovi-joins-forces-with-federal-government-to-create-grape-and-wine-research-network\/","title":{"rendered":"CCOVI joins forces with federal government to create grape and wine research network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s grape and wine research institute has signed an agreement with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC) to increase research efforts that will strengthen Canada\u2019s <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2217 alignleft\" title=\"CCOVI logo\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ccovi_short_logo_032_1b5fb1-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"CCOVI SHORT logo 032U with tag\" width=\"168\" height=\"240\" \/>grape growers and wineries.<\/p>\n<p>A memorandum of understanding spanning the country between Brock\u2019s Cool Climate Oenology &amp; Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) in Ontario and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada\u2019s Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre (PARC) in British Columbia creates a new national research network that will focus on national grape and wine research priorities of the Canadian industry.<\/p>\n<p>The new PARC-CCOVI Wine Grape Research Network will support exchange of ideas and information related to viticulture and oenology. This collaboration will advance the industry via a number of ways such as joint research to address national research priorities; communications activities including lectures and seminars to share information across the country; as well as career and skills development for students, technicians and research professionals in both provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Pat Bowen, Research Scientist at PARC based in Summerland, B.C. welcomes the news.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"279\" height=\"22\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2216\" title=\"aafc-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/aafc-logo.gif\" alt=\"aafc-logo\" \/>\u201cThis agreement is a first for Canada and will strengthen cooperation between researchers in Ontario and British Columbia which in turn will advance the grape and wine industry,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>CCOVI director Debbie Inglis hailed the partnership as a breakthrough to strategically address national research priorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the pieces are in place to implement concrete collaborative projects that will generate useful information for grape growers and wineries across Canada,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s grape and wine research institute has signed an agreement with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC) to increase research efforts that will strengthen Canada\u2019s grape growers and wineries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}