GIFS at USask is striving to be the world’s preferred partner for agriculture and food innovation

At the Global Institute for Food Security (GIFS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask), ambition meets action.

Across our diverse operations, our team has developed unique capabilities to support impactful research and development.

From genomics to biomanufacturing to data analytics and more, our strengths place us among a select group of global institutions equipped to drive innovation at scale.

Today, we are the only organization in Canada with the expertise, capabilities, and unique model to enable partnerships with both public- and private-sector organizations from discovery through to delivery, accelerating innovation at every stage.

Based in Saskatchewan — the heart of Western Canada and the largest producer of field crops in Canada — we’re strategically positioned to collaborate with global partners and deliver scalable, impactful solutions.

“Our ambition is to be the preferred partner for ag and food innovation — not just here, but globally — and we are global. We’re bringing an exciting complement of expertise and leading-edge technologies to really operate at scale,” said GIFS CEO Dr. Steven Webb.

“We’ve created an organization that is complementary and not competitive. We’ve created an organization that operates at scale. We think in and operate at levels of 100, 1,000, 10,000, and 100,000 samples at a time, optimizing resources, automation, processes, and technologies to deliver results effectively and efficiently.”