Upcoming Event: Dr. Lenore Newman will speak at upcoming Science Café on April 2: Newman will be joined by Chilliwack councillor and UFV alumnui Jason Lum discussing pressures around land use in the Fraser Valley. Click here for event details.
Food and Agriculture Institute
Food and Agriculture Institute
Farmland is a renewable resource that feeds generation upon generation if treated with care. Sustaining this resource is critical if we are to feed a growing world, and with fourteen percent of the Earth’s land surface already producing crops and twenty-five percent in forage, every hectare counts. Here in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley, hundreds of crops are grown on some of the world’s most productive farms. Abbotsford is Canada’s most economically productive farm community, adding close to a billion dollars in farm sales each year to the economy.
The Food and Agriculture Institute (FAI) at the University of the Fraser Valley is an interdisciplinary research centre that focuses on issues, challenges, and sustainability solutions related to food and farm systems. FAI partners with a diversity of researchers, industry leaders, and governments to build knowledge and tools for moving toward sustainable, resilient food systems for communities and regions in British Columbia, Canada, and across the globe.
Latest FAI News and Media:
- Vancouver Sun ‘B.C. wants to increase its food autonomy. Here's what it would take’ By By Glenda Luymes- March 7, 2025
- CBC, The Current ‘Could Vertical farming reduce Canada’s need for U.S. produce?’ - March 6, 2025
- The Logic 'How do you make a salad in a trade war? Start with a vertical farm' By Jesse Snyder, February 21, 2025
- Vancouver Sun ’How can B.C. reduce its reliance on imported food?’ By Glenda Laymen, February 09, 2025
- Vancouver Sun ‘Conversations That Matter: Can BC Be a Ag Superpower?’ February 7, 2025
- The Globe and Mail ‘Opinion: Our stomachs are where we’ll feel this trade war most painfully’ By Evan Fraser and Lenore Newman, February 7, 2025
- Global News ‘British Columbians urged to buy local amid tariffs threat but barriers remain’ By Amy Judd & Travis Prasad, January 24, 2025
- CTV News ‘C. residents urged to ‘buy Canadian,’ but that may be easier said than done’ By Rob Buffam, January 24, 2025
- CBC Listen, This is Vancouver ‘How Abbotsford researchers are shaping the future of sustainable food’ - January 17, 2025
- UFV Today 'UFV receives share of millions in funding, co-leads national ag-tech project and research' - January 15, 2025