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Building Resilient Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond

Our 2020 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.

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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.

The Building Resilient Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond series was 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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