Building a Resilient Food System Starts with the Soil
Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes (SAL) Lab published a paper this summer that measured soil organic carbon in the Fraser Valley from 1984 to 2018, reporting that 61% of the farms, soil organic carbon was in decline. Results proposes the next step of the research, which is to evaluate which specific methods are contributing this decline, and working with farmers to find solutions.
Alumni: Pivoting Their Businesses during COVID-19
We checked in with three LFS entrepreneurs in Vancouver, to see how they are adapting their food and beverage businesses during the COVID-19 situation.
Launching Canada’s First Open Education Soil Science Textbook
Launching Canada’s First Open Education Soil Science Textbook How do you bring 36 authors to write a book? That’s the task at hand for Maja Krzic, Associate Professor in LFS, and FranWalley, Professor in the Department of Soil Science at the University of Saskatchewan. Their ambitious, two-year project will launch Canada’s first open, online soil […]
Better veggies for Canadian organic farmers
Better Veggies for Canadian Organic Farmers A new Canada-wide project led by the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS) will help organic vegetable growers find plant varieties better suited to Canadian climates and environments. Postdoctoral Fellow Alexandra Lyon and Professor Hannah Wittman are leading a new five-year research project called Canadian Organic Vegetable Improvement (CANOVI). […]
Research on Delta farms can improve soil productivity and drainage
B.C. study addresses how to make farming more sustainable.
Sean Smukler
Chair, Agriculture and the Environment Director of the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Profile
Maja Krzic
3M National Teaching Fellow,