Reflections from @LUGElab - an #interdisciplinary #research group studying #agriculture, #foodsecurity and the #environment @UBC
Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined July 2018
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Nature of Food Blog retweeted
🚨 New Report:
Ten Facts about Land Systems for Sustainability is a call to action for policymakers seeking sustainable and equitable solutions to urgent global challenges.
🌏 @NRamankutty (IRES/@ubcSPPGA) is among the co-authors from 20 countries
👉 10facts.glp.earth/
@ZiaMehrabi and @NRamankutty, with the help of several brilliant @LUGELab UBC Work Learn students, have put together a website to help you find evidence on how different farm interventions affect yields. Check it out!
farmgeek.xyz/home
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A look at how food labels are being used in places like Chile and Mexico to help combat obesity
@erikalunap and Laura Castrejón Violante 👏
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Nature of Food Blog retweeted
Dana James, a PhD candidate with @ubcfarm & @ubcires, and her colleagues built upon grassroots calls from the food sovereignty movement to argue that the food system can and should be redistributed to become more resilient, sustainable and equitable. foodsystemsjournal.org/index…
Climate change media coverage appears to have taken a back seat during COVID-19
Piece by @ZiaMehrabi using data from @gdeltproject
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Nature of Food Blog retweeted
Our new paper is out today in @ERLjournal on ecosystem services in Canada for conservation planning! (iopscience.iop.org/article/1…)
We mapped hotspots of carbon storage, freshwater, and outdoor recreations across the country. Here are the main messages.
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Nature of Food Blog retweeted
We are closing our survey on labour & agroecological management soon! It is also available in Punjabi and Chinese (traditional and simplified characters)! Linked in first page of survey here: ow.ly/5zbH50C1hi9
The odds of winning a gift card are real good. Pleas share!
There's still time to fill out the BC veg farmer survey for a chance to win a $50 gift card from Lee Valley!
We hope you'll share your experience. This research is being conducted by Dr. Hannah Wittman (PI) and Susanna Klassen.
Link at: ow.ly/5zbH50C1hi9
Nature of Food Blog retweeted
Plant-based meats are on the rise. But are they #sustainable? “It’s well-known that eating lower down the food chain is more environmentally efficient,” @NRamankutty @ubcires nationalobserver.com/2020/12… via @NatObserver
Nature of Food Blog retweeted
"For some countries in sub-Saharan Africa the cost of a basic 1GB MONTHLY plan ranges from as much as 64% to 188% of the ANNUAL income of the poorest 10% of the population" Indeed, even when coverage exists costs are prohibitive for low income farmers go.nature.com/34NXju0
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Nature of Food Blog retweeted
Are we really in a data revolution if hundreds of millions of farmers still cannot get online?
Check out our new paper at Nature Sustainability on the global digital divide in agriculture:
nature.com/articles/s41893-0…
Research graciously led by @ZiaMehrabi
Nature of Food Blog retweeted
New correspondence in @nature by @ZiaMehrabi.
"What is urgently needed is greater political will, not more data synthesis."
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Are you a Canadian researcher in desperate need of more computing power? Here's a tutorial on how to run your Rscripts using @ComputeCanada resources
link.medium.com/i0wpo1aUDab
"donors and researchers should focus on water scarce regions with the largest disparities in access to critical resources"
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Nature of Food Blog retweeted
We are truly lucky to be working with such a brilliant and kind person. Congratulations, Navin!
Congratulations to Prof. @NRamankutty (SPPGA; @ubcires) for receiving the prestigious Wihuri International Prize in recognition of his work on sustainable global food systems. Read more: ow.ly/UnzQ50BNLJe
Nature of Food Blog retweeted
At the #UNBiodiversitySummit last month, leaders from several countries signed the #leaderspledgefornature, committing to reversing biodiversity loss. We need more countries to sign on!
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Nature of Food Blog retweeted
SES and resilience scholarship increasingly recognizes the need for equity and justice, but rarely names the inequities. Our new piece in @WorldDevJournal seeks to do just that, drawing on 3 lessons for resilient food systems from the pandemic. authors.elsevier.com/c/1bWWM…
Nature of Food Blog retweeted
"[The] focus should be on policies that promote groundwater conservation through electricity reforms and financial incentives"
Check out @balsher_sidhu 's piece in CGIAR's Water, Land & Ecosystems blog wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2020/06…
"What are we (re)learning in this moment [amid #COVID-19] about how food systems are impacted by crises?" New post by @susanna_elsie
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Nature of Food Blog retweeted
For #BCfarmers who have just finished a long season: cozy up with a cuppa something delicious and earn some $ by helping @ubcfarm researchers w the #BCvegfarmersurvey bit.ly/2qOzP6R Pls RT @bcagcouncil @ARDCorp @pacagshow
@CHC_CCH @BCFarmersMarket @fruitandvegmag
