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Fostering Economic Opportunities for Equity-Deserving Food Vendors and Suppliers

University of British Columbia. Student Housing and Hospitality Services; University of British Columbia. Campus and Community Planning

This project titled ‘Fostering Economic Opportunities for “Equity-Deserving” Food Vendors and Suppliers” aimed to explore social and sustainable equity through food procurement at UBC to progress towards an active CFFS at UBC. This was done by conducting a literature review reviewing equity related terminology, current and past procurement policies, and current UBC specific food procurement documents/policies paired with primary research via interviews with various stakeholders involved with UBC Food Services and food sovereignty involved institutes within the Metro Vancouver region. Key Takeaways: Primary data and analysis identified characteristics such as locally based, smaller scale, leadership, company demographics as characteristics to consider in defining ‘equity deserving’ food vendors. Main challenges and tradeoffs were also identified with the context of working in an economically and ethnically diverse community like UBC. General recommendations were also made in this section from the various stakeholders/interviewees. Reviewing discussions of currently used “equity” related terminology in academic institutions across a North American context, revealed the discussion of possible responsibility and intention for seeking and pursuit of social equity, sustainability, and other related concepts. Examination of current and past social equity related procurement practices in a North American context specifically in academia, other public institutes, or NGOs was also conducted. These revealed For UBC specific procurement documents, there was trends of lack of transparency, vague wording, and clear lack of integration of equity or related terminology like food sovereignty. 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.”

Report

eng

2023-09-07

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/85820

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/