The Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein has launched at North Carolina State University. The Bezos Earth Fund awarded NC State $30 million over five years to lead a center of excellence to create a biomanufacturing hub for dietary proteins that are environmentally friendly, healthy, tasty and affordable. Duke’s World Food Policy Center is a collaborator in the work.
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What does rural have to teach us? Tune in for a discussion between journalist Grace Olmstead and Brooks Lamb from the American Farmland Trust on June 7, 2024 from 12:45 to 2:30 pm EST.
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A grant-funded opening for a Research Scientist is available immediately at the WFPC, located in Durham, NC. This position is for a two-year employment period, with potential to extend dependent on garnering additional research funding.
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Register for the May 31, 2024 Rural Transformations in the United States visual seminar “Importing the Right to Food,” featuring Smita Narula from Pace Law School and Joshua Lohnes from West Virginia University.
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Four out of twelve funded CRISP teams will pursue research at the nexus of climate, environment and the food system.
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On March 3, 2024, Food Tank partnered with Duke University’s World Food Policy Center to host the “Empowering Eaters: Access, Affordability, Healthy Choices Summit.” During this event, participants had the opportunity to hear from Congresswoman Valerie Foushee, who represents North Carolina’s 4th district, Mayor of Durham Leonardo Williams, and a host of local health and food industry leaders.
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Food Tank, in partnership with Duke University’s World Food Policy Center, announces their Empowering Eaters: Access, Affordability, Healthy Choices Summit on Sunday, March 3, 2024 at the Fitzpatrick Building, Schiciano Auditorium (101 Science Drive, Research Dr, Durham, NC 27708). This is the third in a series of four summits Food Tank is organizing around the country to raise awareness, foster dialogue, and cultivate solutions.
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Farmers have few options when a produce crop doesn’t sell, or the harvesting cost means there won’t be a profit. Sanford’s World Food Policy Center (WFPC) and the Society of St. Andrew hosted a stakeholder workshop to explore strategies for encouraging North Carolina farmers to donate such crops through gleaning. The workshop, held on Feb. 9 in the Research Triangle Park, included farmers, extension agents, food bank representatives, philanthropic foundations, and researchers.
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This project started with a question: Can we feed this growing world without starving the planet? A team of AP journalists explored this with a group of experts brought together in 2022, trying to learn more about how food production affects the climate and environment and how that could change in the future.
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The World Food Policy Center is delighted to announce that Amanda Wood from the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University will be in residence as a visiting researcher with the center from fall 2023 through fall 2024.
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