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 News and Media on the FAI:
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CBC News: North by Northwest ‘Cravings with Lenore Newman: Apples’ - October 19, 2024
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FAI is featured in UFV's 2024 Community Report St'elt'elawtexw 'A recipe for the future'
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UFV Today 'Newman views One Health as a recipe for survival' - September 23, 2024
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CBC News 'Donuts: Lenore Newman on the history of doughnuts in Canada' - August 3, 2024
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'Feeding the Future with Canadian Technology' - Final Report released September 2024
- Vancouver Sun 'Lenore Newman: B.C. could double food production, but do we have the political will? - July 31, 2024