Fostering a Biodiverse Food System : Purchasing Baseline and Guidelines
department or school: Land and Food Systems, Faculty of
data provider: DSpace
contributor: University of British Columbia. Faculty of Land and Food Systems
contributor: University of British Columbia. Alma Mater Society
contributor: University of British Columbia. Campus and Community Planning
creator: Stone, Anna
creator: Boxold, Lauren
creator: Smith, Cougar
creator: Larsen, Joshua
issued: 2021-07-13T18:43:10Z
issued: 2021-04-26
description: The following report was conducted by members of LFS 450 Group 3 Project Team, as a part of the UBC Food Systems Project (UBCFSP), which was initiated by the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and the Seeds Sustainability Program. Our project is titled, “Fostering a Biodiverse Food System: Purchasing Baseline and Guidelines''. Our clients are Brad Vigue and Darren Clay of UBC Food Services (UBCFS), and Laura Arrango of the SEEDS Sustainability Program. Our project is a part of dedicated action steps taken by UBC towards advancing climate action at UBC. In response to the recent Climate Emergency Declaration, UBC realized the need of a Biodiverse Food System Action Team work on identifying and mitigating issues surrounding biodiversity in the campus food system. Our project specifically seeks to inform and align UBC’s food procurement with their values in supporting biodiversity at various scales, and accelerate a transition to a biodiverse-friendly campus. Our main project goals are to identify gaps and opportunities for UBCFS, provide clear purchasing guidelines, and increase overall communication about biodiversity on campus. Our key project objectives are to identify exemplary practices at other universities on biodiversity and to identify opportunities to increase biodiversity in UBC’s purchasing guidelines. This project utilized a Community-Based Action Research (CBAR) methodology in order to meet the goals and objectives of our research. Our research methods included primary and secondary data collection and utilized stakeholder interviews, analysis of past purchasing data, and a landscape scan. For our primary data collection method, we chose to conduct virtual interviews with key stakeholders, biodiversity experts, and others at UBC working on biodiversity initiatives. Our goal was to better understand UBC’s present impact on biodiversity as well as promising areas of future research. Interviews took place via Zoom and were recorded on the application, and the…
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note: Fostering a Biodiverse Food System Purchasing Baseline and Guidlines Prepared by: Anna Stone, Lauren Boxold, Cougar Smith, Joshua Larsen Prepared for: UBC Food Services Course Code: LFS 450 University of British Columbia Date: 26 April 2021 Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program 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 research project 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 Sustainability Program representative about the current status of the subject matter of a report”. University of British Columbia Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Sustainability Program Student Research Report Fostering a Biodiverse Food System 1 Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program 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 research project 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 Sustainability Program representative about the current status of the subject matter of a report”. Prepared by: Anna Stone, Lauren Boxold, Cougar Smith, Joshua Larsen Prepared for: UBC Food Services and UBC Seeds Sustainability Program Course Code: LFS 450 University of British Columbia Date: April 26, 2021 Fostering a Biodiverse Food System 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The following report was conducted by members of LFS 450 Group 3 Project Team, as a part of the …
has type: Report
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0400185
language: eng
peer review status: Unreviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Undergraduate
is part of: UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student Report
is part of: University of British Columbia. LFS 450
subject: Biodiversity
subject: Food
subject: Procurement
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78967