Engaged Curriculum Grants
Community Food Systems Minor
A new university-wide undergraduate minor in which students explore, engage with and help develop and support sustainable community food systems.
Food systems are dynamic, behavioral systems that encompass the production, distribution and consumption of food. They include social, ecological, political and health dimensions with an impact on sustainability and social justice. In the new university-wide undergraduate minor in community food systems, students and community partners work together on issues and questions related to food security, food sovereignty and food justice that arise when designing and organizing sustainable community food systems. The minor — comprised of classroom and experiential learning opportunities — also supports an advisory committee made up of faculty, students and community partners that plays an active role in developing and assessing students’ community-engaged learning experiences.
Grant type: Development
Topics: Access, Equity and Justice; Energy, Environment and Sustainability; Food and Agriculture
The Team
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Rachel Bezner Kerr, Department of Global Development
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Scott Peters, Department of Global Development
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Philip McMichael, Department of Development Sociology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Laurie Drinkwater, School of Integrative Plant Science – Horticulture Section
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Jonathan Russell-Anelli, School of Integrative Plant Science – Soil and Crop Sciences Section
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Suzanne Gervais, Division of Nutritional Sciences
College of Human Ecology
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Heidi Mouillesseaux-Kunzman, Department of Global Development
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Mary Jo Dudley, Department of Global Development
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Community partner: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
- Community partner: Cornell Farmworker Program
- Community partner: East New York Farms
- Community partner: Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming
- Community partner: Soils, Food and Healthy Communities
In the News
MAY 23, 2019
Cornell’s food systems students detail experiences in book
– Cornell Chronicle
Engaged Curriculum Grants
Funding teams that are integrating community-engaged learning into new and existing curricula.