Food Security and Sustainability

A topic of discussion around Vermont and its campuses, food security and sustainability are critical issues in our modern world. In 2009-2010, three VCC Americorps*VISTA positions are specifically targeting this topic. Click a name below to read more about their projects.

Sarah Heim, VISTA, University of Vermont Campus Kitchens Coordinator
Anna Schulz, VISTA, Sterling College Local Food Sustainability Coordinator
Colleen Teevin, VISTA, Green Mountain College and Rutland Area Food and Farm Link (RAFFL) Local-link Coordinator

Resources

Food, Agriculture, and Community Development in the Northeast, Green Mountain College Course, Syllabus, Overview
See the GMC Farm & Food Project webpage and sited research from UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture

Articles

Input Subisidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi: Toward an African Green Revolution, with Glenn Denning, Patrick Kabambe, Pedro Sanchez, Alia Malik, Rafael Flor, Rebbie Harawa, Phelire Nkhoma, Colleen Zamba, Clement Banda, Chrispin Magombo, Michael Keating, and Justine Wangila, PLoS Biology, 7(1): e1000023, 27 January 2009. [Download article as PDF]

Small holder Food Production and Poverty Reduction: Principles for a Financial Coordination Mechanism to Support Smallholder Farmers Ad Hoc Advisory Group to the Madrid Conference on Food Security, Chaired by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, IDEAS Foundation, 26 January 2009. [Download as PDF]

“Food For Thought” Economy Viewpoint, The Report – Senegal 2009, Oxford Business Group, April 2009

Homegrown Aid The New York Times, 8 April 2009.

How to Solve the Growing Global Food Crisis, in Three Steps, NY Daily News, July 23, 2008

Surging Food Pricies and Global Stability Scientific American, June 2008

The African Green RevolutionScientific American, May 2008

Bhagwati and Sachs on the Food Crisis International Herald Tribune, May 7, 2008


Blog Discussion

Call for Volunteers from the Vermont Food Bank