Transdisciplinary Engagement: A Necessary Unity for Land Grants and Food Systems

Monday, April 23, 2012 at 1:00pm to 2:30pm

Mann Library, Stern Seminar Room 160 Cornell University Mann Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Chris Koliba and Erica Campbell will be visiting Cornell to talk about their work supporting trans-disciplinary food systems approaches within the Land Grant System at the University of Vermont, and the Vermont Farm to Plate Network, an emerging statewide multi-stakeholder food systems governance network. In May of 2010 a "Food Systems Spire" was chosen as one of UVM’s Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives.

Koliba is the Co-Director of the Master of Public Administration Degree Program and an Assistant Professor in the Community Development and Applied Economics Department at the University of Vermont (UVM). His research interests include organizational change, civic education, cross-sector collaborations, network theory and governance networks, and educational policy. Learn more about Chris’s work related to this talk from his co-authored paper, Moving Toward a Trans-disciplinary Approach in the Land Grant System: A Case Study here: bit.ly/trans-engage (available to Cornell community members off campus here: bit.ly/trans-cornell).

Campbell is the Vermont Farm to Plate Program Director. Over the past fifteen years, Erica's work has spanned many integrated areas, including food systems, sustainable community development, education, transportation, and climate change. Prior to joining F2P, Erica was a regional food systems planner at the Center for an Agricultural Economy in Hardwick, where she led the development of the Regional Food System Plan for Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.

Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Group (FANG)

Presented as part of Mann Library's Connected Minds, Resilient Communities programming. For more info see: www.mannlib.cornell.edu/resilient-communities