Tag: Community and Environmental Sociology
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Posted on April 15, 2016
Jill Lucht
Growing up on a dairy farm in northern Wisconsin shaped Jill Lucht’s passion for sustainable agriculture. At CALS, she took advantage of opportunities to study […]
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Poverty increases in Wisconsin – Audio
/RSS FeedPoverty increases in Wisconsin MORE INFORMATION HERE: https://news.cals.wisc.edu/2016/02/24/new-analysis-shows-wisconsin-poverty-on-the-upswing/ Malia Jones, Assistant Scientist, Applied Population Lab Department of Community and Environmental Sociology UW-Madison College of Agricultural […]
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Posted on February 18, 2016
Middle East: Improving water policy in an arid region
Political conflict in the Middle East is a constant source of media attention, but Samer Alatout, a CALS professor of community and environmental sociology, focuses […]
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Posted on February 23, 2015
Desire Smith
“Born and raised in a food desert in inner-city Milwaukee, I never thought I’d be standing in front of you today,” Desire Smith told a […]
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Posted on February 17, 2015
Irwin Goldman on the Open Source Seed Initiative
Last April, professors Irwin Goldman of horticulture and Jack Kloppenburg of community and environmental sociology, as well as graduate student Claire Luby, mailed out packages […]
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Posted on December 12, 2014
Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems turns 25 – Audio
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Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems turns 25 Michael Bell, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems Department of Community and Environmental Sociology UW-Madison College of Agricultural and […]
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Posted on September 22, 2014
South Africa: Team effort in the Eastern Cape
In the fertile, rolling hills of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, it’s hard to imagine a food shortage. But hunger is a serious […]
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Posted on April 15, 2014
Novel Open Source Seed Pledge aims to keep new vegetable and grain varieties free for all
This week, scientists, farmers and sustainable food systems advocates will gather on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to celebrate an unusual group of honored guests: […]
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Posted on July 1, 2013
Protecting our pollinators: CALS researchers seek answers, solutions to bee die-off
People and bees have a long shared history. Honeybees, natives of Europe, were carried to the United States by early settlers to provide honey and […]
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Posted on June 10, 2013
UW-Chinese collaboration seeks to preserve biodiversity in China’s Yunnan province
Not long ago, one of the most biologically and culturally diverse regions on earth—Yunnan Province on China’s southwestern border, with its great river gorges, sweeping […]
