LFS 496 Student Profile: Meryn Corkery
LFS 496 Student Profile: Meryn Corkery *Disclaimer: The Career Development in Land and Food Systems course is the updated title of the previously-named Career Development in Land and Food Systems Internship. LFS 496 Student Profile: Communications Intern and Academic Assistant Work Learn Supervisors: Melanie Kuxdorf (LFS 496) and Veronik Campbell (Work Learn) What are you […]
UBC Farm Markets featured on Fairchild TV
UBC Farm Markets featured on Fairchild TV Check out the Fairchild TV feature on the UBC Farm Markets.
Researcher Profile: Gabriel Maltais-Landry, Former Postdoctoral Researcher
Researcher Profile: Gabriel Maltais-Landry, Former CSFS Postdoctoral Researcher Now Assistant Professor, Sustainable Nutrient Management Systems, University of Florida What drew you to UBC Farm and the CSFS? I’m process oriented and I like to understand the mechanisms of why things work the way they do. That’s often easier to do on a research farm than […]
Dawn Morrison on CBC Ideas
Dawn Morrison on CBC Ideas Dawn Morrison, Founder, Chair and Coordinator of the B.C. Food Systems Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty, was featured on CBC Ideas on Indigenous food sovereignty in a radio documentary called: Confronting the ‘perfect storm’: How to feed the future “Here in Canada we waste about a third of the food […]
Researcher Profile: Craig Borowiak, Former Visiting Researcher
Researcher Profile: Craig Borowiak, Former Visiting Researcher Associate Professor, Haverford College in Philadelphia What is the focus of your research? I am an associate professor and chair of the political science department at Haverford College in Philadelphia. I study alternative political economies and for the past eight years have been focusing my studies on what […]
Researcher Profile: Lisa Powell, Former CSFS Postdoctoral Fellow
Researcher Profile: Lisa Powell, Former CSFS Postdoctoral Fellow Current Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Sweet Briar College What is your title? I am a postdoctoral researcher jointly appointed at UBC in the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and at the University of the Fraser Valley. What does your research with the Centre for Sustainable Food […]
April 18: Movie: Unsettling Environmental Review
April 18: Movie: Unsettling Environmental Review What is lost in translation between the passion and creativity in and around the Enbridge and Kinder Morgan reviews and the dispassionate reports and recommendations?
Sept. 27: Good Food in the City: How Cultural Ideas About Food Shape Street Vending Regulation
Sept. 27: Good Food in the City: How Cultural Ideas About Food Shape Street Vending Regulation September 27, 2017, 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. MacMillan Building, Room 342. About the talk: Dr. Amy Hanser’s talk will focus on her most recent research project, looking comparatively at the regulation of street commerce in China and North […]
Decolonizing Research Methods Workshop, presented by the Future of Food Global Dialogue Series and the Food Systems Network
Decolonizing Research Methods Workshop, presented by the Future of Food Global Dialogue Series and the Food Systems Network Thursday, September 14, 2017 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Liu Case Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues Join the Food Systems Network for this Future of Food Global Dialogue Series workshop on Decolonizing Research Methods (DRM). This […]
Scale Your Progressive Food Business workshop series
What is the Feeding Growth “Scale Your Progressive Food Business” workshop series? This series of five workshops provides practical tips for progressive retail and packaged goods companies to reach and maintain success. Each workshop follows the Feeding Growth recipe: personable and caring food industry mentors share advice; participants engage in hands-on exercises; and the helpful community of […]