Undergraduate and graduate LFS students study, research and address crucial real-world questions. You’ll dive deeply into issues of sustainability, climate change, resource management and more, understanding their interdisciplinary connections while also pioneering new answers to pressing global challenges.
Research Stories
The new ‘Food Network’
Networks of relationships can provide important insights. Now researchers have applied the concept of networks to eating patterns, a new type of ‘Food Network’.
What Happens When You Stop Turning the Soil?
What Happens When You Stop Turning the Soil? At UBC Farm and across British Columbia, researchers are testing how regenerative practices can reshape vegetable production. At UBC Farm, you might see some fields covered in long tarps stretched tight across the soil. Weeks pass, and it may not look like much is changing. But, underneath, […]
NSERC Grants to Study Aging, Food and Nutrition, Plants and Packaging
Congratulations to LFS researchers who were successful in the 2025 NSERC Discovery Research Program and NSERC CREATE Program.
News Stories
September 30th, National Day of Truth & Reconciliation
The Centre for Indigenous Land-Based Education, Research & Wellness at xʷc̓ic̓əsəm would like to invite all to a sacred fire ceremony to commemorate the spirits of the children who never returned home, the survivors of Residential Schools, their families, and their communities on the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
2026 Peter Wall Legacy Award Recipients
Congratulations to the LFS Faculty members who received 2026 Peter Wall Research awards. These support research that align with three key areas of focus: urban sustainability, environmental protection of coastal areas, and sustainable approaches to resource-intensive industries, with a particular emphasis on B.C.
B.C. farms could cut climate emissions by one-fifth with tools they already have
British Columbia farmers could cut agricultural climate pollution by about 20 per cent within the next few years using practices that are already available to them, new UBC-led research finds.