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Scenario 5 : baseline survey of the UBC food system : public opinion to inform food system targets

University of British Columbia. Sustainability Office

As part of the University of British Columbia’s Food Systems Project our group conducted a survey to determine baseline knowledge, attitudes and practices of the Campus community. For our methods we used convenience sampling to target the ideal 1000 participants in our survey. Participants engaged in either web based surveys or hard copy surveys to measure their attitudes, behaviour and knowledge about the UBC food system. 413 individuals participated in our survey with 117 filling out hard copy surveys and 296 doing web-based surveys. We found that there was a lot of opportunity to increase knowledge about food sustainability on campus as well as a definite need to improve student’s actual practices within the UBC food system. But there is interest and demand for this information. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”

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University of British Columbia. LFS 450; UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student Report

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0108577

Land and Food Systems, Faculty of

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