Sustainable Agriculture & Food Policy

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Rodríguez Cruz: Puerto Rican farmers will replant despite Ernesto’s impacts

Luis Alexis Rodríguez Cruz writes that farmers face a long and hard road ahead, but there is help.
September 15, 2024
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Hasmik Djoulakian

2024 Fellow
As an organizer and researcher, Hasmik is passionate about supporting food sovereignty movements in California and Armenia. She approaches this work with lenses from both the natural sciences and feminist studies.
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Summer Sullivan

2024 Fellow
Summer examines how increasingly digital landscapes affect workers and ecologies, broadening discussions about the future of work, race, and the limits of data in the face of the climate crisis.
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Landry Guillen

2024 Fellow
Landry strives to integrate environmental justice principles with ecological stewardship and foster connection through food and forestry.
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Selena Rowan

2024 Fellow
Selena combines data analysis with a commitment to community health, ecological restoration, and environmental stewardship to develop innovative solutions for healthy forests in California.
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Sydney Clements

2024 Fellow
Sydney is a researcher and community organizer based in Eastern Connecticut. Her work focuses on the intersection of farmer viability, food access and environmental sustainability.
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Alejandra Cano

2024 Fellow
Alejandra is a transnational emerging scholar cross-pollinating Indigenous ways of knowing, agroecology, and ecological economics to conserve stingless honeybees.
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Krupnik asks if crop production intensification through irrigation can be sustainable

Timothy Krupnik co-authored a recent study in Plos Water that explores intensifying crop production in coastal Bangladesh without negative impacts. They found there is considerable potential to “expand irrigated crop production without...
April 17, 2024
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Niles finds growing and harvesting food can improve food security

"I think this is a hugely overlooked area that contributes to people's food security and nutrition, potentially, but we don't actually talk about very much in the U.S.," Niles said.
March 18, 2024
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Matsuoka co-edits Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice book

Martha Matsuoka’s new, open-access book shows how community-engaged research contributes to environmental justice by centering local knowledge, building truth from the ground up, producing data that can influence decisions, and transforming researchers’ relationships to communities for equity and mutual benefit.
January 18, 2024