The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm (CSFS) is a teaching and research centre and local-to-global food hub working towards a more sustainable, food-secure future. Our living laboratory is committed to finding solutions to local and global challenges facing food systems sustainability.
A 24-hectare integrated production farm, the UBC Farm is situated within a 90-year-old coastal hemlock forest and comprises cultivated annual crop fields, perennial hedgerows and orchards, pasture, teaching gardens, and forest stands.
Campus
Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Mitchell, Matthew | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Terrestrial ecology; Forest ecology; Agricultural ecology; Ecosystem services; urban ecology; Biodiversity conservation; social-ecological systems; Landscape ecology; Agroecosystems |
| Ramankutty, Navin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural environment sciences; Public administration; Public policy; Public security policy; Agriculture; Climate Changes and Impacts; Climate impacts; Environment and Society; Global food security; Land use change; Sustainable agriculture |
| Rivarez, Mark Paul | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Plant pathology; Agricultural ecology; Virology; Bioinformatics; Biogeography and phylogeography; Phylogeny and comparative analysis; Bacteriology; Mycology; Plant microbiota; Horticultural crop protection (pests, diseases and weeds); plant pathology; AI-based modeling; Biological control; virus evolution; virus epidemiology; pathogen diversity; bacteriology; mycology; metagenomics; high-throughput sequencing |
| Smukler, Sean | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural sciences; Agricultural ecology; Soil health; Climate change adaptation and mitigation; Ecosystem services |
| Sunderland, Terence | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Earth and related environmental sciences; Social and economic geography; biodiversity; Communications; Communities and Livelihoods; conservation; Conservation Biology; Ecosystem services; Environmental communication; Forest policy; Land-use Change; Landscape ecology; Natural Resource Management; social science; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods; Developing countries; Forest management |
| Wittman, Hannah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sociology and related studies; Farming systems research; food sovereignty; Sustainable agriculture; socio-ecological systems; Agroecology |