The Feeding 9 Billion Challenge

The Feeding 9 Billion Challenge is a 24-hour case competition open to students from all faculties and challenges students to create sustainable solutions to food system issues.

It is based on the premise that the world's population is projected to be 9 billion by the year 2050. The topic will be given on the day of.

- 💸 Grand prize of $1000, 2nd place: $500, 3rd place: $250 

- 📚 Interdisciplinary: teams of 4-5 people from at least 2 faculties
- 🆘 Receive guidance from mentors
- 💪 Build teamwork skills and make friends!
- ☀️ Tickets are only $10!!!
- 💃 You can sign up as an individual without a predetermined team! Will be assigned a team on the day of the event.

- 🕰 Time: Sunday, November 11th, 2018 at 12:00 pm to Monday, November 12th, 2018 at 12:00pm

- 📍Location: Bruce R. Birmingham Undergraduate Centre in the Sauder School of Business Building.

Solutions can come in all forms. Your team can create a business plan, propose an education program or develop a new way of producing food. The only requirement is that it can be implemented at a local level and work to creating a greener future.

Students will be mentored by professionals and experts in sustainable food systems and other relevant fields.

Feel free to email lfsus.casecompetition@landfood.ubc.ca with any questions or concerns.

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This is UBC's fourth year of running the event, which was instituted at University of Guelph and now takes place at several different Canadian Universities. This event is a collaboration of LFS|US and CUS.