We know food security is a problem on this campus for students. The UBC Food Security Initiative, supported by the UBC Board of Governors, has been created to enhance existing efforts and explore new opportunities. UBC has provided a one-tie subsidy from it’s recent tuition increase (mandated to be directly returned to students) to each of the two Fooood locations to support student food security.  

Fooood is one small exploratory step in UBC’s food security journey. It is operated by UBC Food Services as a not-for-profit location —the subsidy allows us to offer low priced $3 healthy meals for students only. We know subsidizing food is not an ideal or long-term solution; food security is complicated and relates to overall financial security caused by a complex web of factors.