Sustainable Food Systems: Cultivating a Critical Classroom

Sustainable food and beverage production is a critical component on the path towards food security and energy independence. Inefficient production methods and increasingly high-waste products associated with the food production industry need to be identified and addressed in order to create scalable solutions with broad impact. This project will create a new course that allows students to engage with experts across the industry and with non-profits to identify strategies to improve the environmental and economic sustainability of food production. The creation of this course will generate a suite of learning tools that reveal the interconnected sustainability concepts in food production with an emphasis on STEM topics.

Charlie Hoxmeier

Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Charlene VanBuiten

Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Jeffrey Callaway

Associate Director, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Jeff Biegert

Instructor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition