The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm is a research centre and local-to-global food hub working towards a more sustainable, food-secure future.
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Every 2nd Thursday Starting May 28th at 3 P.M. PST
Webinar Series: Building Resilient Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond
May 28, 2020 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. PST
What’s a food system anyway? Unpacking the global and local food system.
June 11, 2020 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. PST
Decolonizing the Land and Food System: Indigenous Resilience in Times of Crisis
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Millions of dollars of new aid for B.C. agriculture and food industries
Global News BC Feature: Susanna Klassen “There is needed to be a rapid shift in where food is going and how its being processed and packaged and our food system isn’t totally set up to deal with this scale…” Susanna Klassen, a PhD candidate working with the CSFS, recently said in an interview with Global […]
Q&A with Hannah Wittman on how COVID-19 is affecting food systems (PWIAS)
PWIAS Q&A: Dr. Hannah Wittman Since long before the COVID-19 pandemic, our Academic Director, Dr. Hannah Wittman, has been researching better ways to put food on tables in British Columbia and around the world. The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies recently did a Q&A with Dr. Wittman about how COVID-19 is affecting the food […]
More than food banks are needed to feed the hungry during the coronavirus pandemic (The Conversation)
The Conversation Feature: Dr. Jennifer Black “More than food banks are needed to feed the hungry during the coronavirus pandemic.” Dr. Jennifer Black, CSFS Associate and LFS Professor, recently co-authored an article in the Conversation on the issues with food banks and challenges of addressing food insecurity during COVID-19 through food banks. Check out the full […]
Pandemic panic sees seed sales spike (CBC)
CBC Feature: Clare Cullen “I think this whole COVID pandemic has made people think that our food system, the distribution system may be damaged by a pandemic like this,” said Clare Cullen in a recent article published in the CBC. Check out the full article here.
Farmers on remote island fight food insecurity with their flock (National Observer)
National Observer Feature: Dr. Hannah Wittman “COVID-19 is making visible these really deep cracks in our food system…we don’t have the necessary public infrastructure to sustain a regionally resilient food system because a lot of our agriculture investment is focused on exports,” said Dr. Hannah Wittman in a recent article published in the National Observer. […]
5 lessons for food system thinking from COVID-19
5 lessons for food system thinking from COVID-19: Susanna Klassen “Civil society groups working on food systems change have argued that this crisis presents an opening to do things differently. Indeed, many are poised to use this crisis for transformation — coalescing around issues like a Universal Basic Income and rights and protections for migrant […]