Welcome to the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the University of British Columbia, helping make LAND, FOOD and COMMUNITY healthy and sustainable ...

The Food and Resource Economics (FRE) group (formerly Agricultural Economics) uses rigourous tools of economic analysis to examine applied problems in the general area of food markets (e.g., trade and regulated markets, food demand analysis, food safety and biotechnology) and the economics of renewable resources and the environment (e.g., trade and the environment, valuation of natural resource ...