Students farms have immense potential for catalyzing a supportive and welcoming network among them. As a strong agricultural institution concerned with sustainability, UC Davis offered fertile ground for such work, especially through the student-run and already well-established UC Davis Student Farm. We will present an overview of our envisioned project “Farming Around the World” and the first concrete action we took with it: the “First Global Student Farm Symposium.” We hope to inspire youth towards sustainable farming and to expand their perspective toward a global vision, while demonstrating that with current technology, starting a conversation is only a few clicks away. Ultimately, by promoting a look inwards and outwards, through techniques of design-thinking, we hope to provoke action, which can be as small and unpretentious as learning together how to grow basil in your backyard or as big as bridging connections between university student farms.
Presenters:
Anca Barcu, PhD Student, University of California, Davis
Andressa Vidigal Rosenberg (they/their), PhD Student, University of California, Davis
Nadia Moukanni (she/her), PhD Student, University of California, Davis
Akshaya Karthikeyan (she/her), B.S. Cell Biology, University of California, Davis
Moderated by: Joanna Regulska (she/hers), Vice Provost and Dean, Global Affairs, Professor, Gender, Sexuality an Women’s Studies, UC Davis