Mission of the Center for Food in Community and Culture

The Center for Food in Community and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay facilitates interdisciplinary scholarship to enhance the synergy between sustainable food systems and a sound environment, healthy people, and equitable communities, locally and globally.

The members of the Center include UW-Green Bay faculty as well as scholars and practitioners outside the academy who have expertise in creating healthy, sustainable food systems.

The Center encourages, develops, conducts, and disseminates scholarship that:

*Integrates the perspectives, data, and approaches from multiple disciplines, including Nutritional Sciences, Anthropology, Nursing, Economics, Environmental Policy, Social Work, Business Administration, Education, and the Arts.

*Draws upon local knowledge of healthy, sustainable food production, distribution, and consumption practices. 

*Relates local food systems and practices to national and global ones.

*Analyzes the relationship between food systems and environmental quality and sustainability.

*Analyzes the relationship between food systems and personal and public health.

*Analyzes the relationship between food systems and equitable communities.

*Analyzes the relationship between food systems and food security.

*Examines ways to address the immediate needs of people facing malnutrition and hunger. 

*Considers how food systems relate to forms of income and power inequities, including those between rich and poor countries.

*Considers the significance of culture and aesthetics in shaping food systems and practices.

Faculty
Derryl Block
Joanne Gardner
Regan Gurung
Aeron Haynie
Vicki Medland
Larry Smith
Christine Style

Associate
Karen Early

Contact Us
cfcc@uwgb.edu

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Webmasters: Vicki Medland
Lynn Walter