Using Community Project in Teaching Food Security: A Student-centered Approach

Abstract

This study aimed to implement community action-based project to help students apply knowledge of food security to the real world. The project had students involved in choosing a food security related topic, collecting data from a community, creating a data-driven action that is beneficial to the selected community, and reporting their work. To aid educators in successfully adopting a project-based learning approach in food security at undergraduate level, this manuscript explained the course framework, demonstrated students’ works, discussed benefits and challenges when employing the community project in the course. The approach described here is applicable in other multidisciplinary fields.