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.

Vancouver Economic Comission

Dionissios Batistatos
This research lays out a consensus-based, inclusive approach to establishing a sustainable food-ecosystems policy in Vancouver. By applying an analytical hierarchy process to group decision-making, it offers a policy development strategy for a regenerative local food system.

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.

UBC Vancouver

Jerry Liu
Using infographics and fixed-effect models and regressions, this research explores the existence of voting bias in the Football Ballon d’Or award and explores possible contributing factors, including cultural, social, and geographic variables.

UBC

Juan Fercovic
This project provides an estimate of the expected direct greenhouse gas emissions for an average Canadian household in 17 census metropolitan areas. It includes emissions from the consumption of gasoline, natural gas and electricity.