UCSC's Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems recently got a grant for $355,000.00 to "study and develop integrated, model programs for improving health, ecological, sustainability and agrifood system literacy within college and community environments."
This project seems to be most heavily focused on campus. While I'm sure that this is a worthwhile endeavor it may be somewhat misplaced. USCS proably has a fairly aware campus population to begin with and while the cloistered environment of a college campus may be condusive to conducting studies in a population, it is probably not as conducive to generating results. A similar study, conducted in a less informed population, which focused more heavily on real world agricultural relationships might be worth pursuing.
Agrifood? Maybe that is not completely redundant but it comes pretty close. It might be good to get some real farmers plugged into a program like this. If nothing else, a farmer would be unlikely to get all gussied up with an expression like "agrifood system literacy."
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