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Supporting the Climate-Friendly Food System (CFFS) Toolkit Framing

University of British Columbia. Campus and Community Planning

As identified by the Climate Action Plan (CAP) 2030 published by the University of British Columbia (UBC), there is a need to develop Climate-Friendly Food Systems (CFFSs) on campus to reduce campus greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (University of British Columbia, 2021). The UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (UBC SEEDS) is developing a toolkit that can enhance awareness and drive action toward CFFSs among the UBC community. Factors influencing food choices at UBC should be taken into account by the CFFS Toolkit to maximize its impact. The main barrier to sustainable choices that will be addressed by the Toolkit is the lack of knowledge preventing people from making informed choices. However, many students have priorities besides sustainability when obtaining food that needs to be reconciled by the Toolkit (Chiam et al., 2021). Luckily, there are also many strengths at UBC that support sustainable food choices that can be highlighted by the Toolkit, including food asset maps, student initiatives, and sustainable food markets. The overall goal of the current project is to support UBC SEEDS in the development of the CFFS Toolkit. The outputs of our group include the feedback from group members regarding the CFFS Student Survey and the CFFS Toolkit contents, as well as a final guidance document identifying effective communication methods and barriers of sustainable food choices to the UBC students. The outputs focus on maximizing the effectiveness of the CFFS Toolkit, based on the chosen theory framework, the Diffusion of Innovation Theory. Our outputs directly target the UBC SEEDS team to advance further the indirect output, the CFFS Toolkit, of which the UBC community is the target audience. To evaluate the completion of our guidance document, we compared it to other sustainability guidelines already written for the UBC community. We also will meet with SEEDS to discuss if our deliverable met their expectations and if it was easy to implement and understand. Once the Toolkit is published, a comparison of the finished product to our guidance document will reveal the degree to which our recommendations are reflected in the Toolkit. Namely, if the identified barriers to sustainable eating are addressed by the Toolkit and if it uses the recommended language and messaging styles. 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/2429/85821

Unreviewed

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