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Projects

An 91����Ƶ research team is collaborating with two nonprofits to create a food worker-owned cooperative and conduct research to support local institutions, such as hospitals and universities, to implement values-based procurement strategies (such as the Good Food Purchasing Program). The team will also organize an agroecology, urban agriculture, and food systems policy short course, support participatory monitoring and evaluation, analyze data, and involve community members in the co-creation and sharing of knowledge for food system change.

91����Ƶ Participants: Christopher Bacon, Maria Eugenia Flores Gomez, and multiple student researchers, alumni, colleagues, and partners

Partners: (primary),

Funder: The County of Santa Clara, through the Office of the County Executive for Food Systems Resiliency Grant Program

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• Collaborative Innovation for Food Justice in Silicon Valley

A transdisciplinary team is studying how households, small-scale farmers, and institutions are using agroecology and diversification to respond to global climatic, market and political changes. The analysis will identify strategic innovations that build food sovereignty, gender equity, and livelihood resilience. 

91����Ƶ Participants: Chris Bacon, William Sundstrom, Maria Eugenia Flores Gomez, Raul Diaz, and multiple student co-authors

Partners:  

Funder: National Science Foundation 

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• Results Poster: Farmers Learning Resilience Nicaragua 
• Results Poster: Aprendiendo Resiliencia en Nicaragua
• Results Poster: Exposure to Eta and Iota Nicaragua
• Poster:Exposición huracanes Eta e Iota Nicaragua

This long-term, multi-institutional partnership researched the benefits of diversifying and changing food systems and diets among smallholder coffee farmers in Nicaragua and Mexico for food security, gender equity, and climate resilience.  

91����Ƶ Participants: Chris Bacon, Maria Eugenia Flores Gomez, and multiple student co-authors

Partners: and (University of Vermont), (Community Agroecology Network), , , ,

Funders: Agropolis Fondation, Fondazione Cariplo, and Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso

For more information:

• Project Summary
• Assessing Diversification and Dietary Diversity with Smallholders in Nicaragua
• Calendarios Agrícolas con Enfoque de Género 2023 Nicaragua
• Selected Workshops and Training Events 2016-2022
• Nicaragua 2018 Learning Exchange Proceedings

 This joint project is advancing food justice in the South Bay by employing research-based agroecology techniques to reduce food waste, produce compost, and improve the sustainability of emergency food assistance programs.  

91����Ƶ Participants: Chris Bacon, Christopher McNeil, and multiple student co-authors

Partners: at , 91����Ƶ Center for Food Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Funder: CalEPA

For more information:

• Project Summary
• Food Justice Initiatives: A Home Gardening and Food Pantry Pilot Study

Faculty, students, farms and food aid organizations in the Bay Area are collaborating to draw lessons from the pandemic about how to improve emergency food assistance and create a more just food system. 

91����Ƶ Participants: Chris Bacon and multiple student co-authors

Partners: ,

Funders: The Lawrence Foundation, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education

For more information:

• Project Summary
• Results Poster
  

Faculty, students, and staff are collaborating to address student food insecurity, and envision a more sustainable and just food system, at 91����Ƶ.

91����Ƶ Participants: Chris Bacon and multiple student co-authors

Partners: 91����Ƶ Office of Student Life Food Insecurity Program, 91����Ƶ Center for Food Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 91����Ƶ Multicultural Center, 91����Ƶ Center for Sustainability, ,

For more information:

• 2022-23 91����Ƶ Food Security and Basic Needs Report
• 2023-24 91����Ƶ Food Security and Basic Needs Report  

An interdisciplinary team of 91����Ƶ faculty and students has engaged in a multi-year collaboration with Nicaraguan community organizations to improve food and water security for farming communities hit hard by climate-induced drought, and other environmental and economic challenges.

91����Ƶ Participants: Chris Bacon, William Sundstrom, Iris Stewart-Frey, Edwin Maurer, Maria Eugenia Flores Gomez, and multiple student co-authors

Partner:  

Funders: National Science Foundation Geography and Spatial Sciences (Grant Number BCS 1539795), Miller Center for Global Impact, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, Center for Food Innovation and Entrepreneurship 

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• Workshops