ProMéxico

Dania Romero Mata.
Dania and ProMexico quantify and valuate the market for Asian vegetables in British Columbia in terms of market penetration, volume, value, and price in order to help Mexican producers penetrate the BC market.

VanCity Credit Union

Debbie Oyenuga
Examines and compares the type and total amount of waste generated, disposed and diverted, at the national, provincial, regional district and municipal levels in order to recommend people and governments to avoid them.

City of Vancouver

Goodness Adesokan
Pursuant to Vancouver’s goal of becoming a zero-waste city by 2040, this project provides and analyzes an inventory of share-reuse-repair city assets. It then then provides research and policy recommendations for zero-waste activities to local government and businesses.

Statistics Canada

Jake Abbot
Together with the UN Sustainable Development Goals team at Statistics Canada, this project furthers the implementation of a set of national indicators that measure Canada’s progress toward sustainable development

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Jill Smilestone
In collaboration with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s economic affairs team, this co-op term involved determining and assessing the costs and benefits of proposed federal regulations pertaining to food safety, and animal and plant health.

The Greater Vancouver Food Bank

Kevin Elsaputra
By the end of the project, not only did I complete the objectives, but I had also made many meaningful connections. As someone who never had any formal work experience prior to this, I found this aspect of the project invaluable.
In this project Kevin employs statistical methods to efficiently and accurately analyze the products that the GVFB receives based on characteristics such a nutritional facts.