Food Systems

May 1, 2024

Rescuing and Gleaning: Creating a Framework for Building Community Partnerships

Students supported the UW Food Pantry’s mission of reducing food insecurity on campus by creating a “partnership-building framework” to help facilitate new relationships between the organization and community businesses. The team used Public Health – Seattle & King County’s restaurant safety rating database and Google Maps data to determine whether a potential business-pantry partnership was…

Guide to Gleaning: Enhancing Food Recovery at the University of Washington

In addition to sourcing food through donations and donor-based funding, the organization UW Food Pantry rescues and gleans food to increase the amount of resources they can provide for the community while simultaneously combating food waste. Students collaborated with the UW Food Pantry to improve and streamline their current gleaning process: they updated, synthesized, and…

Food Security Beyond the College Campus

Students worked with the UW Food Pantry to investigate food security resources specific to students at the University of Washington. These resources and a brief introduction to food insecurity were incorporated into easy-to-read, multilingual e-pamphlets and brochures available on the organization’s website. Community Partner: Maggie O’Brien, UW Food Pantry

UW Food Pantry: A Social Media Initiative for Food Security Awareness

Students worked with the UW Food Pantry to create social media content that amplified the organization’s online presence and informed audiences about the impacts of food insecurity on college campuses. The team built upon the Pantry’s pre-existing strategies to generate informative Instagram posts, reels, and stories containing educational information on food insecurity; how the Pantry…

December 19, 2023

How to Increase Plant-Based Meal Consumption at UW: A Fieldwork Experience

Created a short lecture on how to increase student consumption of plant-based offerings at UW in order to help UW meet their Sustainability Action Plan goals. The lecture centers choice architecture-informed techniques to craft a food setting that nudges folks to choose climate friendly, plant-based food. It also looks at how other universities are making…

Exploring Connections Between Markets and Health: A Collaboration with Slow Food International

Collaborated with Slow Food International to support a webinar exploring the connection between farmer’s markets and health. Synthesized findings and external research into an editorial for marketing initiatives. Community Partner: Slow Food International (Earth Markets)

WSDA 2022-2023 Farm to School Purchasing Grants’ Post-Grant Survey and Purchasing Data Analysis

Analyzed 2022-2023 Farm to School Purchasing Grants’ post-grant survey and purchasing data to produce key impact metrics. These key metrics will be used to report the impact of the 2022-2023 Farm to School Grants to policy makers, stakeholders, and public as an impact infographic that will be released at WSDA website. Community Partner: WA State…

Assessing the Marketing Environment of Online Grocery Retail

Designed a scorecard protocol to evaluate and rank online grocery retailers based on the influence of their marketing practices on accessibility and consumer choice of nutritious foods. Community Partner: Center for Science in the Public Interest

Food Security & Sovereignty in Alaska Native Communities

Conducted a literature review exploring papers that document food security and health in Alaska Native communities as well as how agriculture grants and programs do or don’t align with Alaska Native needs and goals around food security. Findings from literature review supported ongoing work to a report on Food Security and Sovereignty in Alaska Native…

June 28, 2023

Farm to Early Care and Education in Washington: A Statewide Survey and Report

Dietary habits linked to the incidence of chronic disease are developed early in life. Created to address these habits, Farm to Early Childcare and Education (Farm to ECE) initiatives incorporate local food, agriculture, and nutrition through experiential learning opportunities in early childcare settings, and have been shown to improve children’s dietary habits and cultivate a…

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