Engaged scholarship and co-production

Amparo, Jennifer Marie S.; Pulumbarit, Clarice C.; Malenab, Ma Charisma T.; Dangcalan, Ron Jay P.; Mendoza, Maria Emilinda T.; Visco, Emilia S.; Jimena, Carla Edith G.

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“…In our experience as educators and as research directors leading undergraduate and graduate teams, we find that this is likely true of students as well. Therefore, while we propose using the university as a unique laboratory to explore food systems opportunities, we also hypothesize that the effectiveness of solutions is determined by the degree to which they are co-produced; the stronger the degree of collaborative student/faculty research, the greater the likelihood of finding solutions that will disperse beyond the academy (Amparo et al, 2022). And, for these complex inquiries, it will be especially important to engage the voices of food-insecure and otherwise marginalized students in the design of research and solutions.…”

Section: Food and Today's College Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The college campus as a living laboratory for meaningful food system transformation

Evans

Roggio

2023

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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As has become abundantly clear to the social scientists, agriculturalists, policymakers, and food justice advocates who have taken up the fight, progress toward more resilient, fair, and effective food systems is hard fought and prone to challenges. Vexingly, the competing goals of food system improvement even make defining “success” in food system transformation difficult: accessible, affordable food versus nutritious food; diversity in the agricultural economy versus the cost savings of consolidation; and consumer choice and variety versus the ecological advantages of eating seasonally and locally. In this commentary, we treat American college campuses as analogs of the larger food system and as such, laboratories[1] for study of these systemic tradeoffs and proving grounds for policy interventions. We argue that the lived context of college students approximates that of communities in which financial, logistical, and other challenges negatively affect nutrition, equitable food access, and food knowledge outcomes. We suggest that the rigorous assessment of changes in educational philosophy, management practices, and spending priorities on campuses may offer insight into the ways in which we might effect change throughout the broad national food landscape, to facilitate the transition to more equitable and just food systems. [1] Our propositions here connect more broadly with the literature examining the campus as a living laboratory, which addresses a wide array of sustainability issues (e.g., Gomez & Derr, 2021; Hansen, 2017; Save et al., 2021).

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Section: Food and Today's College Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%