Making the link between climate-friendly food
LFS 450 students take a hands-on approach to making the Vancouver campus a role model in food sustainability.
Canadian children’s diet quality during school hours improves over 11-year period
Surveys taken 11 years apart show a 13 per cent improvement in the quality of foods consumed by Canadian children during school hours.
Barbara Hsiao receives President’s Staff Award
Barbara Hsiao, Director of HR & Administration, has worked at UBC since 1998.
Alexandra Protopopova
NSERC/BC SPCA Industrial Research Chair in Animal Welfare @dr_prot
Mentoring Helps Students Navigate Real-World Job Market
LFS Tri-Mentoring Program allows professionals to give back to students.
Tim Lau
Dietetics Program, Student Award Recipient
Brittany Myhal
Masters of Land and Water Systems, Student Award Recipient
Allison Li
Masters of Food and Resource Economics, Student Award Recipient
Akshaya Akshu
Masters of Food Science, Student Award Recipient
Natural biodiversity protects rural farmers’ incomes from tropical weather shocks
The study found that farmers in areas with greater biodiversity took less of an income hit from droughts than their peers who farmed amid less biodiversity.
