Nature of Food Blog

Reflections from @LUGElab - an #interdisciplinary #research group studying #agriculture, #foodsecurity and the #environment @UBC

[UBC IRES • bsky.app/profile/ires.ubc.ca @ubcires]

🚨 New Report:
Ten Facts about Land Systems for Sustainability is a call to action for policymakers seeking sustainable and equitable solutions to urgent global challenges.

🌏 @NRamankutty (IRES/@ubcSPPGA) is among the co-authors from 20 countries
👉 https://t.co/RSbBSBQ89O

[Nature of Food Blog @NatureFoodBlog]

Oops! FarmGeek link didn't work. Try: https://t.co/NpQ9HITMPO

[Nature of Food Blog @NatureFoodBlog]

@ZiaMehrabi and @NRamankutty, with the help of several brilliant @LUGELab UBC Work Learn students, have put together a website to help you find evidence on how different farm interventions affect yields. Check it out!
https://t.co/11hNjoNZqy
https://t.co/hV7ar40k2e

[Nature of Food Blog @NatureFoodBlog]

A look at how food labels are being used in places like Chile and Mexico to help combat obesity
@erikalunap and Laura Castrejón Violante 👏
https://t.co/X4wxWBw17k

[UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems @ubcLFS]

Dana James, a PhD candidate with @ubcfarm & @ubcires, and her colleagues built upon grassroots calls from the food sovereignty movement to argue that the food system can and should be redistributed to become more resilient, sustainable and equitable. https://t.co/dsbnS5t4PP

[Nature of Food Blog @NatureFoodBlog]

Climate change media coverage appears to have taken a back seat during COVID-19
Piece by @ZiaMehrabi using data from @gdeltproject

[Matthew Mitchell @MGEMitchell]

Our new paper is out today in @ERLjournal on ecosystem services in Canada for conservation planning! (https://t.co/HWjB8FnXe5)

We mapped hotspots of carbon storage, freshwater, and outdoor recreations across the country. Here are the main messages.

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[susanna klassen @susanna_elsie]

We are closing our survey on labour & agroecological management soon! It is also available in Punjabi and Chinese (traditional and simplified characters)! Linked in first page of survey here: https://t.co/IhSteaQOOl

The odds of winning a gift card are real good. Pleas share!

[UBC Oceans (also found at ubcoceans.bsky.social) @UBCoceans]

Plant-based meats are on the rise. But are they #sustainable? “It’s well-known that eating lower down the food chain is more environmentally efficient,” @NRamankutty @ubcires https://t.co/dD812L0e9S via @NatObserver

[Juan Diego Martinez @JD_MartinezQ]

"For some countries in sub-Saharan Africa the cost of a basic 1GB MONTHLY plan ranges from as much as 64% to 188% of the ANNUAL income of the poorest 10% of the population" Indeed, even when coverage exists costs are prohibitive for low income farmers https://t.co/cC0QSGxg0H

[vinnyricciardi @vinnyricciardi]

Are we really in a data revolution if hundreds of millions of farmers still cannot get online?

Check out our new paper at Nature Sustainability on the global digital divide in agriculture:

https://t.co/7rEffFpO5l

Research graciously led by @ZiaMehrabi

[LUGE Lab @LUGELab]

New correspondence in @nature by @ZiaMehrabi.

"What is urgently needed is greater political will, not more data synthesis."

https://t.co/7Ezct4EmJL

[Nature of Food Blog @NatureFoodBlog]

Are you a Canadian researcher in desperate need of more computing power? Here's a tutorial on how to run your Rscripts using @ComputeCanada resources

https://t.co/Eb0SG0ryYq

[Nature of Food Blog @NatureFoodBlog]

"donors and researchers should focus on water scarce regions with the largest disparities in access to critical resources"

[LUGE Lab @LUGELab]

We are truly lucky to be working with such a brilliant and kind person. Congratulations, Navin!

[LUGE Lab @LUGELab]

At the #UNBiodiversitySummit last month, leaders from several countries signed the #leaderspledgefornature, committing to reversing biodiversity loss. We need more countries to sign on!

[susanna klassen @susanna_elsie]

SES and resilience scholarship increasingly recognizes the need for equity and justice, but rarely names the inequities. Our new piece in @WorldDevJournal seeks to do just that, drawing on 3 lessons for resilient food systems from the pandemic. https://t.co/vz6KM0pUl6

[LUGE Lab @LUGELab]

"[The] focus should be on policies that promote groundwater conservation through electricity reforms and financial incentives"
Check out @balsher_sidhu 's piece in CGIAR's Water, Land & Ecosystems blog https://t.co/VGlLUbpVkJ

[LUGE Lab @LUGELab]

Know any web developers interested in sustainable agriculture? We'd love to hear from them!

[Nature of Food Blog @NatureFoodBlog]

"What are we (re)learning in this moment [amid #COVID-19] about how food systems are impacted by crises?" New post by @susanna_elsie
https://t.co/r8scftfJRg