Congratulations to Chris Hergesheimer!
Chris successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, Practical Mergers: Export Oriented Value Chains and Food Sovereignty Pathways Haiti and Ecuador on 3 October 2017!
Group members help host World Environmental Education Congress workshop at UBC Farm
On 11 September 2017, attendees of the 9th World Environmental Education Congress visited the UBC Farm as part of the congress’s Community Engagement Day. Members of the Food Sovereignty Research Group were involved in hosting the day’s activities. Dana James provided a tour of the UBC Farm, highlighting the wide array of research, teaching, and […]
Group members help start Food Systems Network
Amber Heckelman, Dana James, and Victoria Ostenso are among the co-founders of the Food Systems Network, with the support of the Liu Institute for Global Issues and Centre for Sustainable Food Systems. The Food Systems Network (FSN) is comprised of students, faculty, and community partners whose research, work, and/or interests focus on one of the […]
Many new publications!
Several pieces by group members were published in Summer 2017. Susanna Klassen and Hannah Wittman co-authored a chapter in the new book, Sustainable Food Futures: Multidisciplinary Solutions, edited by Jessica Duncan and Megan Bailey. Lisa Powell and Hannah co-authored an article in Agriculture and Human Values titled Farm to school in British Columbia: mobilizing food literacy for food […]