Inter-institutional Network for Food, Agriculture and Sustainability

INFAS Mission:

Established in 2010 with an endowment from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Inter-institutional Network for Food, Agriculture and Sustainability (INFAS) is a national network of university and college educators, researchers, and activists, who collaborate in analysis, synthesis, and problem-solving with practitioners to increase U.S. food-system resilience; to illuminate critical trends and common stewardship of public goods essential for food systems, such as water, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and public institutions; and to reduce inequity and vulnerability in the U.S. food system.

INFAS objectives:

1. Increase the capacity of the scientific community to address the nation's major sustainability challenges

2. Increase the scientific underpinnings of sustainability debates

3. Raise the visibility of challenges posed by current food systems

Through addressing these objectives, INFAS ultimately seeks to improve access to healthy food for all children in the United States, with an emphasis on the most vulnerable children and communities.  The network also works to identify critical trends and forge collaborative solutions to improve agriculture and food system sustainability. 

For more information, contact Joanna Friesner, National Network Coordinator

INFAS activities:

• INFAS provides continuing support to a network of scholars representing institutions and organizations committed to the development and support of food and agricultural systems that sustain the health of people, society and the natural environment.  
• INFAS enables scholars to engage more effectively with local communities, advocacy groups, and policy makers in order to forge collaborative solution across regions, universities, institutions, citizen scholars, and urban and rural communities with highly vulnerable populations to improve food system sustainability, public awareness and policy for the common good.  
• The Kellogg endowment creates permanent institutional capacity within INFAS for collaborative, critical analyses of programs and policies to accelerate the transition to food system sustainability and social justice. 
  
•  INFAS meetings and other activities provide cohesion among participants that supports these larger objectives.  

INFAS events and Presentations

Webinars: opens new page

Events:

• Inaugural National Symposium on Food Systems and Sustainability
• The 2nd National Symposium on Food Systems and Sustainability: “Making the Invisible Visible”


• Read the final report from the 2010 symposium.
  

INFAS Reports: opens new page

INFAS Governance Executive Committee

• Bruce Milne, University of New Mexico
• Chair, term 2012-2013. Executive Committee term: 2012 - 2015
• Patricia Allen, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Chair-elect. Executive Committee term: 2012 - 2016

• Casey Hoy, Ohio State University and OARDC, Executive Committee term: 2012 - 2014

• Helene Murray, University of Minnesota, Executive Committee term: 2012 - 2014

• John O'Sullivan, North Carolina A&T University, Executive Committee term: 2012 - 2015

• Molly Anderson, College of the Atlantic, Executive Committee term: 2012 - 2016

INFAS Governing Executive Committee Ex Officio Members

• Shorlette Ammons, Center for Environmental Farming Systems, Community outreach and impact
• Alexandra Frantz, Real Food Challenge
• Michael Chang, University of New Mexico, Graduate Student
• Tom Tomich, University of California, Davis, INFAS host

Executive Committee Governance Documents: opens new page

INFAS member institutions:

• California Polytechnic State University
• Hunter Francis, Director, CAFES Center for Sustainability
  
• Chatham University
  
• Allen Matthews, Director of Sustainable Agriculture, School for Sustainability and the Environment
  
• College of the Atlantic
• Molly Anderson, Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems
  
• Colorado State University
•  Robin Reid, Director, Center for Collaborative Conservation
  
• Iowa State University
•  Matt Liebman, H.A. Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
  
• Kansas State University
• Kerri Ebert, Coordinator, Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Alternative Crops
  
• Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
• Mark Rasmussen, Director
  
• Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow
  
• Michigan State University
• Michael Hamm, C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture and Director, Center for Regional Food Systems
• Richard Pirog, Senior Associate Director, Center for Regional Food Systems
• Rick Foster, W.K. Kellogg Professor in Food, Society, and Sustainability 
• Paul Thompson, W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural Food and Community Ethics
  
• North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
  
• John O'Sullivan, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Chair in Sustainable Food Systems; Director, Center for Environmental Farming Systems
  
• North Carolina Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
• Center for Environmental Farming Systems
  
• North Carolina State University
  
• Nancy Creamer, W.K. Kellogg Chair of Sustainable and Community-based Food Systems; Director, Center for Environmental Farming Systems
  
• Ohio State University
• Casey Hoy, W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural Ecosystem Management
  
• University of Arizona
• Gary Nabhan, W.K. Kellogg Chair in Southwest Borderlands Food and Water Security
  
• University of California, Berkeley
  
• Claire Kremen, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
  
• University of California, Davis
• Thomas P Tomich, W.K. Kellogg Chair in Sustainable Food Systems; Director, Agricultural Sustainability Institute
  
• University of California, Santa Cruz
  
• Daniel Press, Executive Director, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
  
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Michelle Wander, Director, Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture Program
  
• University of Minnesota
• Helene Murray, Executive Director, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
  
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln
•  Chuck Francis, Coordinator, Sustainable Agriculture, Center for Applied Rural Innovation
  
• University of New Hampshire
• Tom Kelly, Director, Office of Sustainability Programs
  
• University of New Mexico
• Bruce Milne, W.K. Kellogg Chair in Sustainable Environmental Food Systems; Director, Sustainability Studies Program
  
• University of Vermont
• Linda Berlin, Director, Center for Sustainable Agriculture
  
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Michael Bell, Director, and Michelle Miller, Associate Director, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
  
• University of Wyoming
•  Christine M. Porter, Director, Food Dignity Project
  
• Washington State University
•  Chad Kruger, Director, WSU Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources
  
• Marcia Ostrom, Director, Small Farms Program
  

 Independent Scholars