By a final vote of 16-9, the Champaign County board voted earlier this month to approve the formation of a Champaign County Local Foods Policy Council. The Council, whose purpose is to encourage the establishment and development of small businesses that feature local foods, especially fruits and vegetables, is also looking to “urge large institutional […]
Month: March 2013
The Ceres Trust Graduate and Ph.D. Scholarships
The Ceres Trust, a private charity-based trust that supports the advancement of sustainable and organic agriculture, recently announced that they will be accepting applications for their competitive Organic Research Initiative, worth up to $10,000 each, until May 1, 2013. The ORI, now in its fourth year, is available to graduate and Ph.D. students planning to […]
Understanding and Addressing the Anti-GE Critique
Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture’s Earth Day Symposium: Understanding and Addressing the GE Crop Critique April 25, 2013 University of Illinois, Illini Union Room 314A The event is free and open to the public but registration is encouraged 11:00- 11:25 Dr. Doug Gurian-Sherman Beyond the hype: What have we learned from 17 years of agricultural genetic […]
Local Food Awareness Day needs you!
On March 13 you can have a chance to directly influence the legislative process at the state capitol in Springfield in the form of Local Food Awareness Day, a lobbying push for small farm-friendly legislation all across the state. The Illinois Stewardship Alliance asks you to join them for this fourth annual event, which aims […]
Get Paid To Do Research!
SIU’s Center for Ecology is offering quite the rare bird for students with a major in the field of ecology this summer; a paid research position at SIU’s campus in sunny Carbondale, Illinois (which is actually pretty significant, because of southern Illinois’s unique geographic diversity of prairie, forest, wetland, floodplain, and river systems)! The topic for […]
NCR-SARE Announces 2013 Graduate Student Grant Call for Proposals
The 2013 North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (NCR-SARE) Graduate Student Grant Call for Proposals is now available online at http://www.northcentralsare.org/Grants/Our-Grant-Programs/Graduate-Student-Grant-Program Graduate students enrolled at colleges or universities in the North Central region can submit proposals for up to $10,000 to fund sustainable agriculture projects that will be part of their educational programs. […]
Ron Revord: First ASAP Scholar
The Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture Scholars Program is seeking applicants for fall 2013. To give you an idea of the kinds of things students might do we thought we’d tell you about the 2012 ASAP Scholar, Ron Revord. Ron is a M.S. student in NRES who has designed his research in plant breeding around the […]