Sustainable Food Systems B.S.

Overview

Contact

John Taylor
Phone: 401.874.9027
Email: jr_taylor@uri.edu

This interdisciplinary program will provide you with the skills and knowledge you’ll need to understand the challenges and contribute to the development of sustainable, equitable, and resilient food systems, from local to global scales. You’ll explore the food supply chain and its policy context from production to processing and distribution, to consumption, waste management and recovery, emphasizing sustainability, impacts on human health, and resilience from economic, environmental, and societal viewpoints.

Features of the program that distinguish it from other, more traditional production-oriented programs include:

• An interdisciplinary, systems-based approach to addressing the challenges facing the food system;
• The exploration of production at diverse scales, from small farms that sell directly to consumers to large scale producers, using diverse methods, from traditional agroecological techniques to high tech systems such as plant factories;
• An emphasis on the value of local food cultures in the context of a global food system; and 
• An ecosystems-based approach to the regeneration of natural systems through food production.