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
Integrating Agriculture with Student Life
There is something growing in the UBC Orchard Commons student residences! New Building Integrated Agriculture (BIA) Pods have been installed. Sleek and futuristic, these pods will feed hungry students, further partnerships across and outside of campus, and further research around accessible and nutritious food systems.
Congratulations Nina von Keyserlingk
Congratulations to Dr. Nina von Keyserlingk on receiving the 2026 Farm Animal Welfare Leadership Award from Animal Health Canada.
Congratulations Carol McAusland
Congratulations to Carol McAusland on being inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Association (CREEA)!