Agroecology, Climate Resilience, and Food Justice Lab

The Agroecology, Climate Resilience, and Food Justice Lab (ACRAF) is a learning lab and a collaborative space for students, faculty, advocates, and partners. This space uses participatory action research as a guiding approach to form empowered partnerships with a range of community-based groups, farmers, government agencies and others. We use political ecology to explain the dynamics of environmental change across scales, and agroecology as a transdisciplinary participatory approach to assess the obstacles and opportunities for livelihood resilience and food system transformations in the context of climate change, market shifts, and other hazards. We are especially interested in mentorships, intercultural collaboration, food and water security, environmental justice, food sovereignty and linking personal and collective change.