January 16, 2023
A report by CSFS Associate and Land and Food Systems research associate Matthew Mitchell looked into how Canada can reach its biodiversity targets by 2030.
Meeting the 30 per cent target of land and water conserved means the country will have to protect an area roughly equivalent to Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba combined, according to Mitchell.
January 16, 2023
CSFS Associate and Sociology professor Dr. Emily Huddart Kennedy wrote about the most common types of relationship people have with the environment.
The eco-types include the Eco-Engaged, Self-Effacing, Optimists, Fatalists and the Indifferent.
(Dreamstime)
December 7, 2022
CSFS Associate Dr. Emily Huddart Kennedy argued that instead of judging a person’s behaviours or attitudes about environmental issues, we can become curious about why they believe or act as they do.
“We can trust that if we had grown up in the same circumstances, we would likely think and do the same,” said Kennedy, “remember that everyone cares about the environment, even if we don’t like the way some people demonstrate it.”
(Alana Paterson/The Wall Street Journal)
December 7, 2022
CSFS Associate Dr. Sarah Benson-Amram (Forest & Conservation Sciences, Zoology) discussed her research that is mapping raccoon social networks.
December 5, 2022
Ranked 35th in the global universities report, UBC snagged a score of 77.5 and the number two spot among Canadian universities.
The 58,590-student university in Vancouver was noted for its national TRIUMF subatomic physics laboratory, the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm and the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention.
(NASA)
December 5, 2022
CSFS Associate Dr. Tara Ivanochko (Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences) explained why we need to protect the Earth’s ozone.
“For a period of time, we were using chemicals for things like refrigerants [a chemical used to make things cool] that would get released into the atmosphere and break down the ozone,” said Dr. Ivanochko.
(Hannah Wittman/LiteFarm)
December 5, 2022
Developed by a farmer-scientist partnership at UBC, LiteFarm is a free and open source management tool that enables farmers to manage their operations more sustainably.
Team members Dr. Hannah Wittman (CSFS Associate), Kevin Cussen (LiteFarm Product Manager) and Dana James (post-doc at the CSFS) discussed how the app is supporting the transition to climate-resilient agriculture.
“We’ve grown from a handful of farms in BC to more than 2,300 farms in more than 120 countries. We’ve been inspired by the ingenuity with which our users employ LiteFarm to run their farms,” said Cussen.
Farmer Terry Boehm is concerned about the future of his community and other farming towns as the price of land creeps up. (Sam Samson/CBC)
December 2, 2022
Kat Aske, Practicum Field Coordinator at the UBC Farm, commented on how the market value of farmland in Alberta is completely disconnected from how much farmers can make on the land.
“This is a massive problem,” Aske said. “As farmland prices rise, this becomes more of a pervasive problem because fewer and fewer actors or people are able to purchase land at all.”
Aske was recently part of a research team based at the University of Manitoba looking into how farmland tenure is changing on the Prairies.
Our Practicum Open House is an opportunity to virtually tour the Farm (from the perspective of the Practicum program), meet current staff, and ask questions about our Practicum program.
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 | 5:00PM – 6:00PM PST
Online over Zoom
Register here