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We are looking for several students to join our team starting 9/30/2025 – through June 2026 (potentially longer). Apply here this form before 5/9/25 @ 11:59pm Campus location On  campus and virtual  Department contact person Chris Bacon  Title Food Justice … Continue reading →

Christopher M. Bacon (Environmental Studies and Sciences), Alejandra Guzmán Luna (Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico), V. Ernesto Mendéz (University of Vermont) and co-authors from cooperatives and universities in Nicaragua and Chiapas Mexico recently published an article in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems … Continue reading →

Raj Patel, a noted expert in the world food system, delivered the keynote talk for an SCU event on decolonizing the food system to address intertwined problems of hunger, climate change, and racism. He diagnosed the ills of the current … Continue reading →

The 2022 American Association of Geographers annual meeting was held online from Friday, Feb. 25 – Tuesday, March 1, and featured more than 4,500 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips by leading scholars, experts, and researchers. Members of the Agroecology, … Continue reading →

Food justice is “the right of communities everywhere to produce, process, distribute, access, and eat good food regardless of race, class, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, ability, religion, or community.” This is not the reality in San Jose where thousands of residents … Continue reading →

Chris Bacon (Principal Investigator) and SCU economist Bill Sundstrom recently received a National Science Foundation grant for $285,722 to study how small-scale farmers and communities in Nicaragua can develop environmental and economic resilience.   Two farmers in front on their home … Continue reading →

We recently learned that Professor Eduardo López Herrera, partner and mentor of Santa Clara University’s  Agroecology, Climate Resilience and Food Justice Lab faculty, staff, and students, passed away on October 23, 2021 in his native city of Estelí. Msc. Eduardo … Continue reading →