Think Tanks
Community Partners
The USF Future of Food Think Tank collaborates with a wide array of community partners to enhance food security, promote sustainable agricultural practices, and support health and wellness initiatives. These partners provide essential services such as urban farming education, food distribution to local communities, nutrition education, and healthcare integration. They serve various populations including seniors, low-income rural families, and urban residents, fostering healthier communities through innovative programs like food prescription initiatives, community gardens, and organic farming projects. By leveraging these partnerships, the think tank addresses local and regional food challenges and empowers communities to achieve food sovereignty and sustainable food systems.
Central to this work is the Future of Food Think Tank collaboration with community partners to pursue transdisciplinary research that translates into actionable solutions and practical applications. By integrating diverse expertise from rural and urban farming, food distribution, nutrition education, and healthcare, the think tank addresses complex challenges at the intersection of food security, nutrition education, microbiome health, and agricultural practices. Transdisciplinary research with community partners is crucial to the think tank's vision and purpose, as it fosters innovation, bridges gaps between academic scholarship and real-world needs, and ensures research findings are directly applied to improve community health and food systems.
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