Resources

The conferences and events listed below are those regularly hosted at Yale. To stay informed of campus events, visit the Student resources.

• Agrarian Studies Colloquium
• Global Environmental Justice Conference
• Knead 2 Knowat the Yale Farm
• New Horizons in Conservation Conference
• Yale Economic Development Symposium
• Yale Food Systems Symposium

The following centers, programs, and initiatives offer a myriad of ways to engage in research, fieldwork, training, and events related to food systems and agriculture. The resources listed here include both those housed at YSE and those at other areas of Yale University.

• Yale Sustainable Food Program:

  The Yale Sustainable Food Program serves as a hub for creative and critical work on food and agricultural systems topics that are entangled with pressing problems of global significance. YSE students can get involved with YSFP through the Agroforesters-in-Residence program at the Yale Farm, or explore food systems further afield with the Global Food Fellowship.

• Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY):

  From conservation to regenerative agriculture, CBEY’s programmatic focus on Thriving Food Systems and Nature-Based Solutions supports responsible stewardship of our planet’s resources. Programs in CBEY’s Thriving Food Systems and Nature-Based Solutions include the Regenerative Agriculture Lab, Shifting Power & Resources: Equity and Justice Work in Practice discussion group, and Corporate Water Risk and Strategy Workshop. 

• Environmental Leadership Training Initiative (ELTI):

  ELTI trains and supports people to restore and conserve tropical forest landscapes using strategies that support biodiversity and livelihoods. Many of ELTI’s projects involve collaboration with the agricultural sector, and include topics such as agroecological restoration, intensive silvopastoral systems, riparian buffer zones, and farmer empowerment.

• Yale Forests: 

  The Yale Forests are living laboratory for teaching, management, and research. The Forests span over 10,000 acres of forestland across three New England states.

• Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Sustainability Initiative (JEDSI):

  Examining the relationship between social inequalities, lived experiences, and environmental outcomes, JEDSI focuses research, teaching, and practice on our environmental history, diverse voices in the environmental movement, and better pathways forward. One of eight primary areas of research, JEDSI’s Food and Farming focus offers opportunities to engage with issues of food access, food sovereignty, and food justice.

• Law, Ethics & Animals Program (LEAP):

  LEAP atYale Law School is a multidisciplinary think-and-do tank dedicated to: (1) drawing the attention of leading thinkers and doers to the deep questions of conscience and law that human-animal relationships and industrialized animal cruelty raise; and (2) empowering Yale University scholars and students to produce positive legal and political change for animals, people, and the environment upon which they depend. Initiatives include the Climate Change & Animal Agriculture Litigation Initiative, CAFE Lab, LEAP Student Fellows Program, and more.

• Yale Center for Environmental Justice:

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• Yale Macmillan Center, Program in Agrarian Studies:

  The Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale is an experimental, interdisciplinary effort to reshape how a new generation of scholars understands rural life and society. The program hosts a weekly Agrarian Studies Colloquiumduring the academic year.

• Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale:

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• Yale Center on Climate Change and Health (CCCH):  

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• Yale Center for Ecosystems & Architecture (CEA):

  The Yale Center for Ecosystems & Architecture explores the interaction between plants, animals, and the environment to radically transform the way we design energy, water and built infrastructures. One of CEA’s core areas of research is foodand includes ongoing investigation of the synergistic relationships between food growing, plants and the bioremediation of food and water systems.

• Yale Forest Forum (YFF):

  The Yale Forest Forum serves as the hub of communications and engagement for The Forest School, bringing together a diverse group of leaders in forestry and forest policy through regular events and programs. Past initiatives include the Program in Tropical Forestry and Agroforestry focused on research, education, and promotion of biodiversity conservation, reforestation, and agroforestry.