Tag: food security

A GHI Seed Grant Story: From Ideas to Impact

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By Katie Newcomb, GHI Communications Director...When Dr. Charles Nicholson was working in Agricultural and Applied Economics in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at UW–Madison in 2022, he applied for and received a GHI Seed Grant to support an international, interdisciplinary workshop exploring how participatory systems modeling (PSM) approaches could address food and nutrition security …

Working with Communities to Ensure Food Sovereignty: Meet Marcia Paola Chapeton Castro

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By Kendall Buehl, GHI Staffer…Marcia Paola Chapeton Castro, a nutritionist, dietician and Ph.D. student in Public Health at Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL) – Campus Bogotá, Interfaculty Program, is on her way to a thesis focused on community collaboration to achieve food sovereignty and improve healthcare. Chapeton also holds a Master of Amazonian Studies, which …