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Cornell receives USDA grant to advance community food systems
June 24th, 2011
From the Cornell Chronicle
By Krishna
Ramanujan
"To foster the growth of equitable, healthful and sustainable community food systems, Cornell will receive $1 million of a five-year, $5 million multistate project.
The "Food Dignity: Action Research on Engaging Food Insecure Communities and Universities in Building Sustainable Community Food Systems" project is led by Christine Porter, Ph.D. '10, an assistant professor of public health at the University of Wyoming. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, grew out of Porter's Cornell Ph.D. dissertation in the field of nutritional sciences.
The Cornell share of the grant will have education, research and extension components -- and includes the development of a new cross-disciplinary undergraduate minor in sustainable food systems at Cornell and the University of Wyoming...."