{"id":7108,"date":"2021-04-01T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=7108"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:00:04","slug":"mfre-speaker-series-prosperity-in-bcs-ag-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-7108","title":{"rendered":"MFRE Speaker Series: Prosperity in BC&#8217;s Ag Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday, the director of Investment Agriculture Foundation (IAF), Michelle Koski, will talk about BC\u2019s agricultural challenges and opportunities and how they are addressed with investment and programs.<\/p>\n<p>You can click on the link bellow to learn more about Michelle and to find readings on the topic. Please share with students! Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/cultivating-bc-agriculture-agribusiness\">Cultivating Prosperity in BC Agriculture and Agri-Food<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Tuesday, April 6, 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time<\/strong>: 10:00 am \u2013 11:00 am<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Koski is the Executive Director with the Investment Agriculture Foundation (IAF).\u00a0 IAF is a not-for-profit foundation that helps governments deliver a wide range of programs in the agriculture and agri-food sector.\u00a0 Michelle has just completed a strategic planning process that has set the vision for the Board and the organization for the next 5 years.\u00a0 This new vision will see the creation of an IAF Trust and the development of unique IAF programs aimed at addressing challenges and opportunities in the agriculture and agribusiness sectors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Event Link<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ubc.zoom.us\/j\/63198895621?pwd=TzlhTUdLMVlhR29WcVZSVFZjK0pKdz09\">https:\/\/ubc.zoom.us\/j\/63198895621?pwd=TzlhTUdLMVlhR29WcVZSVFZjK0pKdz09<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Meeting ID:\u00a0<strong>631 9889 5621<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5>Passcode:\u00a0<strong>521521<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paulina Gonzalez Miranda<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0MFRE<br \/>\nEducational Researcher<br \/>\nFaculty of Land and Food Systems<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus| Musqueam Traditional Territory<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:paulina.gonzalez@ubc.ca\">paulina.gonzalez@ubc.ca<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday, the director of Investment Agriculture Foundation (IAF), Michelle Koski, will talk about BC\u2019s agricultural challenges and opportunities and how they are addressed with investment and programs. You can click on the link bellow to learn more about Michelle and to find readings on the topic. Please share with students! Thank you! &nbsp; Cultivating&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions\/7109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}