Author: Jana Stewart, (MPH/MS) Advisor: SFSI affiliated faculty Raymond de Young April 2016 At a time when diet-related disease is at an all-time high, there is an opportunity for a paradigm shift in the healthcare system. The focus for decades has been the treatment of symptoms, but a new focus on the social determinants of […]
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Authors: Kelsea Ballantyne (MBA/MS), Rebecca Baylor (MS), Alice Bowe (MS), Jana Stewart (MPH/MS) Advisors: SFSI affiliated faculty Ivette Perfecto and SFSI affiliated faculty Lesli Hoey April 2015 The Greater Lansing Food Bank (GLFB) is a food bank in mid-Michigan that is rethinking its mission and service to the community. Rather than simply supply as much food as possible,
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Author: Garen Leung, PiTE class of 2016 Studies to date have examined consumer perception of various organic labels; however, the results are often ambiguous and much confusion remains surrounding the organic label. This study examined consumer perception of one of the most commonly recognized organic labels – the USDA organic seal – on five food
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Author: Rachael Lacey, PiTE class of 2016Advisor: SFSI faculty affiliate Margot Finn Entomophagy, or the consumption of insects, is widely practiced on a global level, but is uncommon in the United States. There has been promising research on the nutrition, safety, and sustainability of crickets as food, as well as research on cultural perceptions of entomophagy
By SFSI affiliated faculty Regina Baucom in the American Journal of Botany First published January 28, 2016
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By SFSI affiliated faculty Raymond de Young Published January 2016 in the World Sustainability Series At a time when environmental problems are growing and biophysical limits-to-growth are apparent, encouraging sustainable behavior is a critical societal objective. Within the college campus sustainability movement this is expressed as the need to broaden student involvement in environmental stewardship
By SFSI affiliated Andrew D Jones, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Mark L. Wilson Published November 2015 in Frontiers in Public Health. Food sovereignty has been defined as “the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems.” Human
By SFSI Affiliated faculty Victoria Campbell-Arvai Published May 5, 2015, in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education The purpose of this paper was to document the food-related environmental beliefs and behaviours of undergraduate university students. More specifically, this research was focussed on determining if environmental sustainability is a consideration in students’ food choices,
Principal author: SFSI affiliate Andrew Jones April 2015 On April 16, 2015, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs released a report calling on the United States to use the power of the agriculture and food sector to reduce the reality and risks of malnutrition globally. The report was presented for the first time at The
By SFSI affiliated faculty Ivette Perfecto, John Vandermeer Published January 2015 Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem as a model for a sustainable agricultural ecosystem. It draws on the authors’ own research conducted over the last
