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BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network (ACARN)
The BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network (ACARN) connects scientists, government, and industry experts to collaboratively address climate challenges and strengthen the agricultural sector’s resilience. Through engaging workshops, informative seminars, and clear communication materials, ACARN ensures that valuable research findings are accessible to all, empowering producers with reliable climate information and practical solutions.
Learn more at www.bcacarn.ca
Contact:
- Dr. Love-Ese Chile, ACARN Manager: lechile@bcacarn.ca
BC Food Web
BC Food Web aims to improve access to research results and other resources to help improve the sustainability and resilience of food systems. The BC Food Web is a centralized platform for translating and disseminating provincial agricultural research across various commodities. It serves as a resource hub for producers, researchers, industry professionals, and extension staff to access valuable insights and knowledge.
Learn more at https://bcfoodweb.ca/
Contact:
- Juliana Cao, BC Food Web Coordinator: juliana.cao@ubc.ca
Dietetics
UBC’s Dietetics program prepares you for entry into an in-demand profession, at a level that readies you to meet national accreditation standards. Dietitians aim to improve and promote health through optimized food and nutrition choices, and fill a variety of different roles in nutrition care, management, or population and public health. Our graduates are highly employable in a diverse range of roles, many within the ever-expanding health care system.
Undergraduate Dietetics program: link.
Graduate/Master of Nutrition and Dietetics program: link.
Contact:
- Gerry Kasten, Lecturer, Dietetics: gerry.kasten@ubc.ca
Plant-Pollinator Global Change Lab
The Plant-Pollinator Global Change Lab is investigating the dynamics of plant interactions with their biotic and abiotic environments. Our research focuses on understanding how plants and their associated communities (such as pollinators and herbivores) are responding and adapting to the substantial challenges posed by global environmental changes, particularly those in agro-ecosystems. Current projects include evaluating the impacts of new agricultural technologies on the large-scale distribution of pollinator communities, measuring the ecosystem services provided by pollinators and predatory insects, and investigating habitat amendments’ ability to provide nesting sites for wild bees in agro-ecosystems.
Contact:
- Sarah Knoerr: sknoerr@student.ubc.ca
- Risa Sargent: risasargent.landfood.ubc.ca
Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes (SAL) Lab
With an ever-changing climate condition amidst the climate crisis we are currently facing, we need to work towards a more sustainable production system. Aside from contributing less to Greenhouse Gas Emissions, we need to start adapting new practices that help mitigate losses from extreme variable weather that comes with the climate change crisis. In the Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes lab, not only are we monitoring the greenhouse gas emissions of conventional practices, but we are also actively testing sustainable practices for their impacts on emissions and climate resilience.
Contact:
- Alan Lee, SAL Research Lab Coordinator: alan.lee@ubc.ca
The Wittman Lab
The Wittman Lab explores critical questions related to food sovereignty, agrarian citizenship, and sustainable food systems. Current projects focus on digital agroecology and assessing organic and agroecological transitions in British Columbia and globally. Her group leads work on assessing agroecological indicators using the LiteFarm digital farm management application developed at UBC in collaboration with farming communities across the globe. See www.litefarm.org
Housed within the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS) at UBC, Dr. Wittman’s research integrates with the CSFS’s mission to advance sustainable food systems through research, teaching, and community engagement. CSFS is anchored at the UBC Farm, a hub for agroecosystem innovation, where students, researchers, and community partners collaborate to promote resilient, socially just, and thriving food systems locally and globally.
Contact:
- Hannah Wittman, Professor: hannah.wittman@ubc.ca
- Carolina Diaz, Research Coordinator: carolina.diaz@ubc.ca