Star in your own pulse video

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Are there pulse researchers interested in making a quick video about their research for a chance to win an ipad? For International Year of Pulse, we are creating a video montage of pulse research taking place across Canada, and will be featuring the video presentation during the Canadian Pulse Research Workshop<https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/tab2.aspx?EventID=1842774>, October 25-28. 

Can you share this opportunity with anyone you know active in pulse research? We are covering all of Canada from coast to coast and want to make sure we have representation from the West Coast. 

The video can be just a few seconds (to a max of 2 min), describing what their research is and why it matters. It can be done quickly on a cell phone. We want to cover breeding, agronomy, nutrition, health, processing, utilization, marketing. 

Here are the guidelines:

https://classic.regonline.com/custImages/330000/337928/Pulse_Research_Video_Submission_final.pdf 

Contact Tanya Der <tder@pulsecanada.com<mailto:tder@pulsecanada.com>> if you have questions.

 Tanya Der
Manager of Food Innovation & Marketing
Pulse Canada
Winnipeg, MB
Tel 204.925.3783

Checking in on 548Z registration

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Registration Open for Urban Food Systems aka Critical Food Justice Issues Course

UBC School of Community and Regional Planning

Open to UBC Graduate Students (non-Planning students require instructor permission)

Over the last 15 years, the incorporation of food systems thinking and practice has become commonplace in city halls, urban planning programs, and other arenas of public policy conversation. Once a stranger to the planning field, food now has a place at the table. At the same time, the alternative (i.e. local and organic) food movement is increasingly more mainstream than fringe with Vancouver as its poster child. The aspiring ‘Greenest City’ touts a robust offering of urban agriculture, farmers markets, artisanal food trucks, and compost heaps – the sum of which would delight Michael Pollan to no end.

While these successes should be recognized as such, there is a ‘dark side’ of urban food systems policy and planning where questions of social justice are concerned. The benefits and burdens of the food system are not being shared fairly as colonization, racism, sexism, and poverty, among other living legacies of power and privilege, govern rampant inequity. Food and the food system are powerful tools for both perpetuating as well as reconciling social injustice. In the course we will explore how food systems planning, policy, and on the ground projects are leading to or inhibiting social justice for all.

This condensed 1-credit course diverges from typical food systems planning teaching as it will provide only a very basic foundation in urban food systems policy and planning and thereafter focus on unpacking some of Vancouver’s most salient food justice issues. The course takes a dialogic and experiential learning approach by welcoming guests to the course each week, by taking field trips, and with an emphasis on facilitated discussion rather than lecturing.

This is a place based course using Vancouver and the surrounding region as our domains for critical inquiry. The course will also importantly take place in the heart of the city at the UBC Learning Exchange.

Currently confirmed speakers include leaders from:

  • Vancouver Food Policy Council
  • BC Food Systems Network Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty
  • City of Vancouver Social Planning and Sustainability Departments
  • Fresh Roots Urban Farm
  • Greater Vancouver Food Bank
  • Downtown Eastside Kitchen Tables Project/Potluck Café
  • Hua Foundation
  • Sanctuary Health

For more details in the course outline: http://www.scarp.ubc.ca/courses/current-issues-planning-urban-food-systems-draft

 

Student Service Centre course page: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/main?pname=subjarea&tname=subjareas&req=3&dept=PLAN&course=548Z

 

To contact the instructor: Zsuzsi Fodor zsuzsi.s.fodor@gmail.com

Registration Open for Urban Food Systems aka Critical Food Justice Issues Course

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UBC School of Community and Regional Planning

Open to UBC Graduate Students (non-Planning students require instructor permission)

Over the last 15 years, the incorporation of food systems thinking and practice has become commonplace in city halls, urban planning programs, and other arenas of public policy conversation. Once a stranger to the planning field, food now has a place at the table. At the same time, the alternative (i.e. local and organic) food movement is increasingly more mainstream than fringe with Vancouver as its poster child. The aspiring ‘Greenest City’ touts a robust offering of urban agriculture, farmers markets, artisanal food trucks, and compost heaps – the sum of which would delight Michael Pollan to no end.

While these successes should be recognized as such, there is a ‘dark side’ of urban food systems policy and planning where questions of social justice are concerned. The benefits and burdens of the food system are not being shared fairly as colonization, racism, sexism, and poverty, among other living legacies of power and privilege, govern rampant inequity. Food and the food system are powerful tools for both perpetuating as well as reconciling social injustice. In the course we will explore how food systems planning, policy, and on the ground projects are leading to or inhibiting social justice for all.

This condensed 1-credit course diverges from typical food systems planning teaching as it will provide only a very basic foundation in urban food systems policy and planning and thereafter focus on unpacking some of Vancouver’s most salient food justice issues. The course takes a dialogic and experiential learning approach by welcoming guests to the course each week, by taking field trips, and with an emphasis on facilitated discussion rather than lecturing.

This is a place based course using Vancouver and the surrounding region as our domains for critical inquiry. The course will also importantly take place in the heart of the city at the UBC Learning Exchange from 5:30-8:30 PM September 8, 15, 22, 29 and October 6.

Currently confirmed speakers include leaders from:

  • Vancouver Food Policy Council
  • BC Food Systems Network Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty
  • City of Vancouver Social Planning and Sustainability Departments
  • Fresh Roots Urban Farm
  • Greater Vancouver Food Bank
  • Downtown Eastside Kitchen Tables Project/Potluck Café
  • Hua Foundation
  • Sanctuary Health

For more details see the course outline: http://www.scarp.ubc.ca/courses/current-issues-planning-urban-food-systems-draft

Student Service Centre course page: https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/main?pname=subjarea&tname=subjareas&req=3&dept=PLAN&course=548Z

To contact the instructor: Zsuzsi Fodor zsuzsi.s.fodor@gmail.com

Zsuzsi Fodor
Consultant & Facilitator
| Food Systems Planning, Policy & Community Development
Adjunct Professor | UBC School of Community and Regional Planning
Member | Vancouver Food Policy Council
778.855.0077 | @zedfo
www.zsuzsifodor.com

Submit your abstract – Food science and technology

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You are still in time to submit an abstract of your most recent research results to be presented at The Food Factor I Barcelona Conference (Barcelona-Spain, 2-4 November 2016). Deadline: 7 September (only for poster and virtual presentation)

Submit your abstract!

You may be interested in having a look at the list of accepted abstracts so far.

Conference topics: The Food Factor I Barcelona Conference will offer an excellent opportunity for researchers from a broad range of academic disciplines to present, exchange and disseminate information and experiences on food science: food chemistry and biochemistry, food microbiology, food physics, food analysis, food processing and packaging, food engineering and hygienic design, foods of plant origin, foods of animal origin, environmental impact of food production and consumption… Have a look at the detailed list of topics proposed for the conference.

Plenary lecture: “Highlighting natural value: physical and chemical approaches in food processing” by Prof. Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira (Portugal)

Important deadlines:

  • 7 September: abstract submission (only for poster and virtual presentation)
  • 26 September: late registration (new deadline)

Join us in Barcelona in November! The conference will be held at the Historic Building of the University of Barcelona; an impressive building located in the heart of the city. Learn more

Or could you be interested in our virtual participation? This kind of participation is thought for those researchers unable to attend the conference in Barcelona but that are interested in presenting their works at the conference. More info here

Contact details: Aurora Solano The Food Factor I Barcelona Conference web: www.foodfactor.org email: conference@foodfactor.org Phone: +34924258615

Organizer: Formatex Research Center Zurbaran 1, 2nd floor, office 1, Badajoz, 06002, Spain www.formatex.org

Grad Student Employment Opportunity

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Biodiversity Academic Assistant_Sept2016toApril2017

The UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program at UBC is looking for a Biodiversity Academic Assistant to coordinate academic partnerships, support student learning and research, and support the creation of the online resource for the Biodiversity Project. The position is for eight months, starting September 2016 and ending April 2017.  If you are interested in applying, please read the attached job description, and apply via UBC Careers Online by August 28th 2016 with a resume, cover letter, and professional writing sample (1 page max).

The UBC Social, Ecological, Economic, Development Studies ( SEEDS) Sustainability Program advances UBC’s commitment to explore and exemplify sustainability in campus operations by managing and supporting partnerships between staff, faculty and students on accredited projects that integrate campus Operations and Academia. This Program supports UBC’s Place and Promise goal to explore and exemplify sustainability. Since 2001, SEEDS projects have been integrated into over 180 courses, resulting in over 1100 innovative and high impact project reports published online, and over 6000 student, faculty and staff participants. A key program goal is to support campus staff in developing strategies for achieving the University’s environmental and social sustainability goals in fifteen thematic areas: climate, energy, water, waste, land, food, transportation, procurement, materials, community, health, wellbeing, green buildings, biodiversity and finance.

This role will support the SEEDS Sustainability Program continued success in enhancing the sustainability of the UBC campus. Working primarily in project coordination, the successful candidate will play a key role in coordinating a new cross campus project “Building Biodiversity: A Campus Resource for Teaching, Learning and Doing”. In close collaboration with the Faculty of Science, SEEDS applied and successfully received a Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) for this new project. The project involves collaboration with the Faculty of Forestry, School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), Faculty of Science (Botany, Zoology), School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, UBC Building Operations, Planning and Design, and Sustainability and Engineering within Campus + Community Planning.

For more information about the position and how to apply, please see the attached description. If you have any questions about the position, please send an e-mail to SEEDS.info@ubc.ca .

David Gill
Program and Policy Planner, UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program
Community Development | Campus and Community Planning
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
Main Office #3331 -3rd Floor, 2260 West Mall, CIRS Building | Vancouver, BC  Canada V6T 1Z1
Phone 604 827 5252|  Cell 604 442 8987
David.Gill@ubc.ca
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