{"id":8853,"date":"2019-07-15T17:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T17:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2019-07-15T17:32:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T17:32:17","slug":"dr-lenore-newman-appointed-to-provincial-task-force-ufv-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/07\/15\/dr-lenore-newman-appointed-to-provincial-task-force-ufv-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Lenore Newman appointed to provincial task force ~ UFV Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lenore Newman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/geography\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty-members\/newman-lenore.htm\">Canada Research Chair in Food Security and the Environment<\/a> and Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/food-agriculture-institute\/\">Food and Agriculture Institute at UFV<\/a>, has been appointed by the government of British Columbia to a newly created <a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/foodsecuritytaskforce\">Food Security Task Force.<\/a> This group will explore and advise on technology and innovations aimed at strengthening the agriculture sector in BC, growing the economy, and boosting farm productivity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/blog\/2019\/07\/dr-lenore-newman-appointed-to-provincial-task-force\/\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5294 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo-300x137.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo-150x68.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo-200x91.png 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2017\/02\/UFV-science-logo.png 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/02\/Geography-and-the-environment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-608\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/02\/Geography-and-the-environment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/02\/Geography-and-the-environment.jpg 672w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/02\/Geography-and-the-environment-300x68.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/02\/Geography-and-the-environment-150x34.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/02\/Geography-and-the-environment-200x45.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Lenore Newman, Canada Research Chair in Food Security and the Environment and Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at UFV, has been appointed by the government of British Columbia to a newly created Food Security Task Force. This group will explore and advise on technology and innovations aimed at strengthening the agriculture sector &#8230; <a title=\"Dr. Lenore Newman appointed to provincial task force ~ UFV Today\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2019\/07\/15\/dr-lenore-newman-appointed-to-provincial-task-force-ufv-today\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":8854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,58,9],"tags":[375,350,97],"class_list":["post-8853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deans-office","category-news","category-physical-geography","tag-food-security","tag-geography","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8855,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions\/8855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}