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Farm To Fork Or Farm To Landfill?, Barbara L. Goode
Farm To Fork Or Farm To Landfill?, Barbara L. Goode
Center for Engagement and Community Development
K-State Pollution Prevention Institute (PPI) is addressing food system issues. Promoting local food means preventing excess travel, while also reducing fuel and energy needs. PPI facilitated a Salina-area food system assessment where stakeholders identified the need for local food aggregation and more opportunities for distribution. PPI also worked with rural Kansas institutions and Wichita Dillons stores to reduce food waste using U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s food recovery tools. Summer interns helped grocers identify various opportunities for source reduction and food diversion. For example, instead of going to the landfill, surplus food went to hungry populations.
Common Table, Patrick Mclaughlin
Common Table, Patrick Mclaughlin
Center for Engagement and Community Development
Describes Common Table approach to increasing awareness and assistance to community members experiencing hunger and related economic stresses.
Harvesters - The Community Food Network, Jessica Kejr
Harvesters - The Community Food Network, Jessica Kejr
Center for Engagement and Community Development
Harvesters—The Community Food Network is a regional food bank and a certified member of Feeding America. Serving a 26-county area of northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas, Harvesters provides food and related household products to more than 620 not-for-profit agencies including emergency food pantries, community kitchens, shelters and others. Learn about food insecurity in Manhattan and Riley County, and how Harvesters collaborates with local partners through innovative models in effort to fulfill its mission to feed hungry people today and work to end hunger tomorrow.
The Flint Hills Breadbasket, Marybeth Keiffer
The Flint Hills Breadbasket, Marybeth Keiffer
Center for Engagement and Community Development
Describes campus and community collaboration to provide emergency food supplies in Manhattan Kansas.
Connecting The Curriculum: Departmental Approaches To Addressing Food Security Through Engaged Work, Tamara J. Bauer, Chance Lee R
Connecting The Curriculum: Departmental Approaches To Addressing Food Security Through Engaged Work, Tamara J. Bauer, Chance Lee R
Center for Engagement and Community Development
For over a decade, the Staley School of Leadership Studies has been addressing the issue of food insecurity through community-engaged learning. Their departmental collaboration has allowed students to grasp leadership through the issue of food insecurity, while also making progress to reduce the impact of food insecurity in the community. Examples of their curriculum include the classes LEAD 212: Introduction to Leadership Concepts, LEAD 405: Leadership in Practice, and LEAD 420: Theories of Nonprofit Leadership, where students work in partnership with the Flint Hills Breadbasket.
The Lunchbox: A Program Of Community Core, Ross M. Allen, Zev A. Allen
The Lunchbox: A Program Of Community Core, Ross M. Allen, Zev A. Allen
Center for Engagement and Community Development
Community CORE, a nonprofit organization out of Soldier, Kansas, works to mitigate childhood hunger in the community through “The Lunchbox,” a summer food program for students on free-and reduced-lunch.
Real Food Lunch And The Student Food Cooperative, Joshilyn H. Binkley, Matthew A. Rogers
Real Food Lunch And The Student Food Cooperative, Joshilyn H. Binkley, Matthew A. Rogers
Center for Engagement and Community Development
Slides from 5-minute IGNITE session
Food Deserts In The Breadbasket: A Rural-Urban Comparison, Michael J. Miller, Patrick S. Rissler
Food Deserts In The Breadbasket: A Rural-Urban Comparison, Michael J. Miller, Patrick S. Rissler
Center for Engagement and Community Development
This research seeks to better describe and understand rural and urban food deserts. Previous research on food deserts suggests that, as a result of discriminating structural social mechanisms like redlining and neighborhood disinvestment within large metro areas in the U.S., poor and black individuals and households tend to be at a distinct advantage in terms of healthy food accessibility and availability (Miller et al. 2015). Similar trends in grocery store disinvestment have been seen in rural areas though there has been less research attention in these areas. In this paper we analyze the differences and similarities between the dynamics that …