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Future of Food Global Dialogue and Webinar Series

Future of Food Dialogues: CSFS Associate Seminars and Webinar Series

Since 2020, the CSFS has pivoted to offer events online, allowing access to speakers and audiences across geographic borders.

2021 Summer Webinar Series:

Farm to Globe: Transforming Our Food Systems

This summer, the CSFS at UBC Farm, generously sponsored by RBC Royal Bank and in partnership with UBC LFS and the BC Food Web, will be presenting the second season of our Future of Food webinar series: “Farm to Globe: Transforming Our Food Systems”. This year’s series will focus on what has become readily apparent not only to our food systems experts, but also to the general public – that our food systems need fixing. We’ll be exploring the most pressing issues our food systems face today, everything from how restaurants have had to change and adapt during the pandemic, the biodiversity crisis, food school programs as an avenue to address food insecurity, and so much more! Join us for discussions on what steps we need to take to transform our food systems – from farm to globe.

Our 2021 Webinar Series

Canada’s Role in Local and Global Food Systems

Canada’s Role in Local and Global Food Systems

July 8, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Order Up: How Restaurants Adapted to the Pandemic

Order Up: How Restaurants Adapted to the Pandemic

July 15, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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Speakers: Taking on Food Insecurity with Our School Food Systems

Taking on Food Insecurity with Our School Food Systems

July 22, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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Speakers: How Nature Based Solutions Restore Balance

How Nature Based Solutions Restore Balance

July 29, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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Speakers: Mobilizing Industry to Make a Difference

Climate Change: Mobilizing Industry to Make a Difference

August 5, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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Innovation on the Farm

Innovation on the Farm

August 19, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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Cultivating Biodiversity: Agricultural Landscapes and the Biodiversity Crisis

Cultivating Biodiversity: Agricultural Landscapes and the Biodiversity Crisis

August 26, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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Organic, Biodynamic, Regenerative: What's Really Healthy for Our Soil?

Organic, Biodynamic, Regenerative: What’s Really Healthy for Our Soil?

September 2, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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From Lab to Field: Genomic, Microbial, Biogeochemical Studies

From Lab to Field: Genomic, Microbial, Biogeochemical Studies

September 9, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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Regrowing Agriculture

Regrowing Agriculture

September 16, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

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2020 Summer Webinar Series:

Building Resilient Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond

Our 2020 webinar series “Building Resilient Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond” featured many of the foremost food systems experts from UBC and across BC. The series focused on investigating the food system from all angles, creating a space to ask fundamental questions on how we can increase resiliency in the food system both during and after COVID-19. See webinar recordings below. This series has been generously sponsored by RBC Royal Bank.

Our 2020 Webinar Series

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What’s a food system anyway? Unpacking the Global and Local Food System

May 28, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Recording Here.

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Decolonizing the Land and Food System: Indigenous Resilience in Times of Crisis

June 11, 2020, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Recording Here.

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A Food System in Crisis: Climate Change, COVID-19, and Opportunities for Change

June 25, 2020, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Recording Here.

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The Role of Innovation in Building a Food-Secure Future

July 9, 2020, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Recording Here.

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Essential Labour, Essential Lives: Migrant Agricultural Workers and COVID-19

July 23, 2020, 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Recording Here.

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Eating Close to Home: Fostering the Local Food System During COVID-19

August 6, 2020, 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Recording Here.

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Farmers: Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic

August 20, 2020, 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Recording Here.

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The Right To Eat: Tackling Racism & Inequality in the Food System

September 3, 2020, 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Recording Here.

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Dismantling and Rebuilding the Food System after COVID-19: The 5Ds of Redistribution

September 18, 2020, 10:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Recording Here.

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Reclaiming Food Sovereignty in Africa post-COVID-19

November 27, 2020, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Recording Here.

CSFS Associate Seminars

These quarterly seminars feature one of our CSFS Associates and their research. Ranging from all aspects of food systems research, our researchers’ investigations include: food insecurity, climate change adaptation, bees and pollinators, healthy soils, pest management, food safety, forestry, and more!

The Farm to Globe: Transforming Our Food Systems and Building Resilient Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond series are brought to you by the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS), the BC Food Web, the Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS), and RBC Royal Bank.

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