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Tammara Soma
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Latest papers
Rethinking food loss and waste to promote sustainable resource use and climate change mitigation in agri-food systems: A review.
Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA · 2025
Neoliberal growth vs food system democratization: narrative analysis of Canadian federal and civil society agri-food policy.
Agriculture and human values · 2025
A Citizen Science and Photovoice Approach to Food Asset Mapping and Food System Planning.
Journal of planning education and research · 2024 · first author
Latest funding
Catalyzing School Food Research in British Columbia: Bridging Networks, Mapping Governance, and Understanding the Potential of Food Literacy to Improve Children's Health and Well-being
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
- $24,943
Small is Beautiful: Community Composting for Food System Resilience
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $110,094
Building The Just Transitions in Food Systems Network
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
5 publications.
Rethinking food loss and waste to promote sustainable resource use and climate change mitigation in agri-food systems: A review.
Adelodun B, Agbelusi OO, Soma T, Odey G, Adeyi Q, Kumar P, Ajibade FO, Goala M, Silva LFO, Mostafa YS, Singh R, Choi KS, Eid EM
Neoliberal growth vs food system democratization: narrative analysis of Canadian federal and civil society agri-food policy.
Robert N, Soma T, Mullinix K
A Citizen Science and Photovoice Approach to Food Asset Mapping and Food System Planning.
Soma T, Li B, Shulman T
Research priorities for global food security under extreme events.
Mehrabi Z, Delzeit R, Ignaciuk A, Levers C, Braich G, Bajaj K, Amo-Aidoo A, Anderson W, Balgah RA, Benton TG, Chari MM, Ellis EC, Gahi NZ, Gaupp F, Garibaldi LA, Gerber JS, Godde CM, Grass I, Heimann T, Hirons M, Hoogenboom G, Jain M, James D, Makowski D, Masamha B, Meng S, Monprapussorn S, Müller D, Nelson A, Newlands NK, Noack F, Oronje M, Raymond C, Reichstein M, Rieseberg LH, Rodriguez-Llanes JM, Rosenstock T, Rowhani P, Sarhadi A, Seppelt R, Sidhu BS, Snapp S, Soma T, Sparks AH, Teh L, Tigchelaar M, Vogel MM, West PC, Wittman H, You L
Food access, mobility, and transportation: a survey and key informant interviews of users of non-profit food hubs in the City of Vancouver before and during the COVID-19 crisis.
Rajasooriar D, Soma T
Catalyzing School Food Research in British Columbia: Bridging Networks, Mapping Governance, and Understanding the Potential of Food Literacy to Improve Children's Health and Well-being
Principal investigators: Soma, Tammara; Han, Richard
Keywords: Children; Food Literacy; Food Policy; Health; School Food
Small is Beautiful: Community Composting for Food System Resilience
Principal investigators: Soma, Tammara R.
Keywords: community composting; food system resilience; food waste; solid waste management; closed loop food system; British Columbia; Hazeltons; rural
Building The Just Transitions in Food Systems Network
Principal investigators: Bowness, Evan W.
Keywords: just transitions; food systems; resurgence; settler responsibility; decolonial approaches
Building The Just Transitions in Food Systems Network
Principal investigators: Bowness, Evan W.
Keywords: just transitions; food systems; resurgence; settler responsibility; decolonial approaches
Digging into the Farm to School Movement: Assessing the Environmental and Social Impacts of Connecting Learners and Growers through Food Literacy and Sustainable Local Food Procurement Partnerships in British Columbia, Canada
Principal investigators: Soma, Tammara R.
Keywords: food system; food security; farm to school; social innovation; land use planning
New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research: Social Innovation Management for BIOPlastics
Principal investigators: Soma, Tammara R.
Keywords: social innovation; circular economy; bioplastics; packaging; supply chain
Our Home, Our Food, Our Resilience: A Citizen Science Approach to Food Asset Mapping and New Frontiers in Ecological Heritage Planning in Canada
Principal investigators: Soma, Tammara
Keywords: food system planning, food security, ethnobiology, Indigenous, food asset mapping, resiliency, heritage planning
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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