New KPU study suggests Okanagan could satisfy local diets by producing its own food Mon, May 31, 2021 Regionalizing food systems can be a driver of sustainable community development and the basis for resilient local and regional economies and ecologies. This is the message from a new study at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. “Food systems cannot be separated from other planning and development activities. We need to recognize the inextricably linked nature of food systems and adopt a ‘food systems lens’ in all our planning activities,” says Dr. Kent Mullinix, director of the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems (ISFS). The ISFS has concluded the three-year Okanagan Bioregion Food System Project . The study focused on farming and food systems in the Okanagan region of British Columbia.