Climate Resilient Farming: Bok Choy and Rice
Food at the Tipping Point: Ways Forward from a Food System in Crisis Climate Resilient Farming: Bok Choy and Rice Learn about Wendel’s research on rice growing techniques View this post on Instagram A post shared by CSFS at UBC Farm (@ubcfarm) Learn about Amanda’s research on shading bok choy View this post on Instagram […]
Is the Future too Bright?
Food at the Tipping Point: Ways Forward from a Food System in Crisis Is the Future too Bright? Meet Daphne and the “ALANizers” she designed View this post on Instagram A post shared by CSFS at UBC Farm (@ubcfarm) Learn about why research on ALAN is important View this post on Instagram A post shared […]
Beyond the Fields: Exploring On-Farm Biodiversity
Food at the Tipping Point: Ways Forward from a Food System in Crisis Beyond the Fields: Exploring On-Farm Biodiversity Dr. Matt Mitchell talks about the biodiversity project at the UBC Farm View this post on Instagram A post shared by CSFS at UBC Farm (@ubcfarm) Why monitor biodiversity? Matt Mitchell explains the purpose behind the […]
Developing Organic Vegetables for a Changing Canadian Climate
Food at the Tipping Point: Ways Forward from a Food System in Crisis Developing Organic Vegetables for a Changing Canadian Climate Chris Thoreau and Aabir Dey talk us through what CANOVI is all about View this post on Instagram A post shared by CSFS at UBC Farm (@ubcfarm) Meet Weijia Wang, the new postdoc leading […]
Feeding the City: Tackling Food Insecurity in Vancouver
Food at the Tipping Point: Ways Forward from a Food System in Crisis Feeding the City: Tackling Food Insecurity in Vancouver Are you concerned about rising food insecurity in your own community? You’re not alone. Food insecurity affects one in five children in BC, visits to the food bank have risen exponentially year over year, […]
Unlocking the Potential of Diversified Farming: Exploring Benefits and Overcoming Barriers
Food at the Tipping Point: Ways Forward from a Food System in Crisis Unlocking the Potential of Diversified Farming: Exploring Benefits and Overcoming Barriers Diversified, small-scale and organic farming has the potential to support biodiversity on farmlands and increase farmer livelihoods. But transitioning to these systems can be challenging, especially for the small-scale growers who […]
Finding Unity: Integrating Environmental Health with Food Production
Food at the Tipping Point: Ways Forward from a Food System in Crisis Finding Unity: Integrating Environmental Health with Food Production It has become clear that the conventional way of producing food has a huge toll on the environment. We can see examples around the world of the environmental degradation from conventional food production, whose […]
Biomaterials: The Future of Food Packaging and Single-Use Plastics
Food at the Tipping Point: Ways Forward from a Food System in Crisis Biomaterials: The Future of Food Packaging and Single-Use Plastics Lettuce in a bag, plastic wrapped mushrooms, yogurt containers, berries in plastic clamshells. Food production is tied to the use and disposal of single-use plastics, but could biomaterials be a sustainable alternative? How […]
Like Bees and Carrots: A Two-Part Interview Special on Northern BC’s Pollinators and Canada’s Organic Vegetables
Food at the Tipping Point: Ways Forward from a Food System in Crisis Like Bees and Carrots: A Two-Part Interview Special on Northern BC’s Pollinators and Canada’s Organic Vegetables In the second instalment of our speaker series, we are releasing two video interviews with Dr. Aija White, University of Northern British Columbia, and Dr. Solveig […]
Completing the Circle: A Path Towards Nutrient Circularity in Food Systems
Food at the Tipping Point: Ways Forward from a Food System in Crisis Completing the Circle: A Path Towards Nutrient Circularity in Food Systems Can we achieve balance in the nutrient cycle? In an ideal world the nutrients in soil, such as phosphorus and nitrogen, flow through the entire food system, growing into plants, which […]