Twenty food and agriculture experts from seven countries visited Washington University in St. Louis on Thursday, February 5, to learn about the School of Public Health’s Food and Agriculture Research Mission (FARM), one of the school’s six research networks. FARM takes a public health-centered approach to food and agriculture, working with academic, public and private-sector partners to ensure access to healthy, sustainable diets for all.
The event was part of a weeklong meeting of Agri-Tech for Resilience, Innovation & Sustainable Ecosystems (ARISE). Supported by the U.K. government, ARISE brings together organizations from Latin America, the U.K. and the U.S. to strengthen trilateral collaboration and drive innovation, shared research and sustainable growth in conservation-based farming. Partner organizations are based in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Mexico as well as the U.K. and the U.S.