Results for research on: Food & Agriculture

Telling a Sustainable Story: An Agribusiness Start-Up Stands Apart

Telling a Sustainable Story: An Agribusiness Start-Up Stands Apart

Conscientious consumers are repeatedly encouraged to eat local, buy organic, seek out fair trade labels and ask about the traceability of a product’s supply chain. As sales of organic and ethically labeled products rise, companies both large and small have focused...

Carissa De Young – Rackham Fellowship

Carissa De Young – Rackham Fellowship

The Erb Institute welcomes you to join us in celebrating a recent award for one of our new Erber's, Carissa De Young. Carissa is a newly-minted recipient of the Rackham Non-Traditional Fellowship. A path that started with a week long service trip to Mexico as a 15...

Lessons Outside the Classroom and in the Amazon

Lessons Outside the Classroom and in the Amazon

Since September 2015, students from the Ross School of Business and Erb Institute have worked on consulting projects for Shared-X, an agricultural social-venture startup supporting increased prosperity for smallholder farmers. As part of this action-based education,...

A Closer Look at Food Hubs and Local Food

A Closer Look at Food Hubs and Local Food

Food hubs are entities that connect farmers and food producers with larger markets for their products. Through funding from Erb Cool Projects, I attended the National Food Hub Conference in Atlanta, which was sponsored by the National Good Food Network. The biannual...

A Costa Rican University and Its Part in the U.S. Banana Market

A Costa Rican University and Its Part in the U.S. Banana Market

In February, I spent several days on EARTH University’s campus in the Guacimo region of Costa Rica, not far from Limon. I was there to visit family working with the university, and I had heard EARTH was a significant supplier of bananas to Whole Foods Market in the...