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February 21, 2023
MFRE Faculty Spotlight: Matias Margulis - International Policy and the Food & Resource Sector
In his course, Global Food and Resource Governance, Dr. Margulis develops students’ understanding of the international policy making process and equips them with essential tools for assessing the efficacy, fairness, and legitimacy of global policies and governance arrangements. To further explore the course and the subject of global food and resource governance, Dr. Margulis answered the following questions for us.
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January 16, 2023
MFRE Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Karen Taylor on Agribusiness, Corporate Finance and the MFRE
Dr. Taylor Contributes Years of Valuable Banking and Agribusiness Experience to the MFRE Dr. Karen Taylor is a director of Corporate Finance at BMO Financial Group. She teaches Agribusiness Management at the UBC Master of Food and Resource Economics (MFRE) and holds a Ph.D.
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December 7, 2022
Food prices in Canada are going up — again.
The Food prices in Canada are going up — again. Canada’s Food Price Report 2023 forecasts an overall food price increase of 5% to 7% for the coming year, the highest predicted increase in food prices since the inception of the report twelve years ago.
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August 30, 2022
MFRE FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: NISHANT KALIA'S EXPERTISE IN AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES TRADING
Nishant leverages his personal and professional experience to familiarize MFRE students with key derivatives commodity trading strategies. Nishant Kalia brings several years of experience to the MFRE program in derivatives trading and investment research for commodities such as sugar, coffee,
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February 18, 2022
Beyond MFRE: Kat Jin, Sustainability Consultant at Pinna
From a UBC Sustainability Scholar with the City of Vancouver, to a successful Sustainability Consultant. Beyond MFRE is a series of interviews focusing on alumni and their life after our masters degree.