TFS Seminar 2022-2023 – Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

TFS Seminar 2022-2023

  • Jack O’Brien
    Finding the Magic; Creating shared space in an increasingly unequal and racially divided Ireland This project sought to summarize the socioeconomic upheaval that has transformed Ireland over the past thirty years in particular. Centering Muck and Magic community garden, the idea of community gardens as ‘embodying the radical imaginaries’ of a more equal, anti-racist Ireland… Read more: Jack O’Brien
  • Lunia E. Oriol
    Circumpolar Northern Food Systems in a Changing World In the Circumpolar North, farming is generally limited due to its cold climate and short growing season. However, these trends may change. Due to climate change, these northern regions are warming at an accelerated rate, raising questions about future changes to land and water use patterns. In… Read more: Lunia E. Oriol
  • Macy Robinson
    Farmville NC’s modern take on “Honoring Our Past, Shaping Our Future” through agribusiness transformation My hometown in eastern North Carolina has a long history of excellence in the tobacco industry. Over the past fifty years, however, the economic growth in Farmville began to stall and tobacco production began to shift to other areas of the… Read more: Macy Robinson
  • Bills To Help Return Hawaii To A More Resilient Food System
    Author: Taylor Kaili McKenzie, SEAS, TFS Fellow, class of 2024Published originally here on April 27th, 2023 The biggest threat to food sovereignty is the current dependence on importation. This is a call to action: While we were learning how to live in a world with a new respiratory virus, we spent the time imagining what… Read more: Bills To Help Return Hawaii To A More Resilient Food System
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