RECENT PRESENTATION: 'Biodiversity & food: challenges and opportunities to “win more and lose less"' with Professor Tom Tomich (10 November 2022).

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Oxford Food Systems

'Biodiversity & food: challenges and opportunities to “win more and lose less"'

Food and agricultural production account for a huge share of land use and land cover change on our planet, with a long, well-established legacy of detrimental effects on biological diversity. And yet, although less diverse than corresponding “natural” systems, these working agricultural landscapes also can provide important habitat values and other ecosystem functions. 

Professor Tom Tomich, Founder of the Food Systems Lab & Distinguished Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy, UC Davis and Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Biodiversity and Society, University of Oxford. 


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FSL project funded by USDA AMS: "Creating High Value Market Opportunities for California’s Small- and Mid-Scale Meat Producers"


Learn more: Watch the overview video
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JUST PUBLISHED:

Why Do We Need Food Systems Informatics? Introduction to This Special Collection on Smart and Connected Regional Food Systems (April 2023)

 

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A malleable workflow for identifying the issues and indicators that define and measure sustainability in food systems (August 2022)

 

PRE-PRINT: The Great Intergenerational Robbery: A Call for Concerted Action Against Environmental Crises (Annual Review of Environment and Resources/Volume publication date October 2022)
 

Power vs Influence

Design and Implementation of a Workshop for Evaluation of the Role of Power in Shaping and Solving Challenges in a Smart Foodshed (February 2022)

 

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An objective-based prioritization approach to support trophic complexity through ecological restoration species mixes (February 2022)

 

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Governing Ecological Connectivity in Cross-Scale Dependent Systems (January 2022)

 

 

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FSL WHITE PAPER: "A New Era for Meat Processing in California?"

 

 

NOW ACCEPTING MANUSCRIPTS:

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"Sustainability" special collection on "Smart and Connected Regional Food Systems", co-edited by Tom Tomich and Casey Hoy

 
 
Collection publications, to date:

 

Why Do We Need Food Systems Informatics? Introduction to This Special Collection on Smart and Connected Regional Food Systems (April 2023)


"PestOn: An Ontology to Make Pesticides Information Easily Accessible and Interoperable" (May 2022)

"Design and Implementation of a Workshop for Evaluation of the Role of Power in Shaping and Solving Challenges in a Smart Foodshed" (February 2022)

"Exploring Social Media Data to Understand How Stakeholders Value Local Food: A Canadian Study Using Twitter" (December 2021)

"Early Ethical Assessment: An Application to the Sustainability of Swine Body Scanners" (December 2021)

~Accepting manuscript submissions for publication throughout 2022~


FOOD SYSTEMS LAB

The Food Systems Lab (FSL) , directed by Dr. Thomas P. Tomich and housed in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, has grown from our group's roots in sustainable sourcing and regional landscape assessment into a program on developing and improving the information management aspects of food system sustainability, in addition to continuing our core research areas. The primary focus of this cross-cutting informatics work is to improve how sustainability can be defined, measured, and operationalized by improving information management and connectivity among complex webs of challenges, data, and actors. 

Our work has four focus areas:

  1. Food supply chains
  2. Working landscapes
  3. Data curation, analytics, and visualization
  4. Community engagement and policy analysis.