SAFS Program Funding Opportunities
SAFS provides travel grants to enrolled undergraduate and graduate students on an annual basis. The suggested maximum is $800. The Travel Grant Application (pdf) includes additional information on reimbursement and important travel details. If you are a graduate student, you will need to submit your own travel information in Concur travel software.
AGROECO Listserv
SAFS helps students and faculty stay connected through the AGROECO listserv, which provides job, internship, event, and other postings related to SAFS topics from the MSU campus to the greater Michigan area.
To join, email listserv@list.msu.edu and include the following command line in the body of the message (not the Subject): SUBSCRIBE AGROECO. You can choose your format - individual messages or digest.
If you have any issues signing up, contact the SAFS advisor.
Job Listservs
COMFOODJOBS
The best nationwide job and internship listservs in Community Food Systems, broadly defined. Jobs, internships, Americorps opportunities, etc.
GOOD FOOD JOBS
Nationwide network for food jobs, from production and culinary work to keeping the books.
Campus Links
- MSU Center for Regional Food Systems engages with people to develop regionally integrated, sustainable food systems.
- MSU Kellogg Biological Station Farms focuses on agricultural conservation research and education in cropping, biofuel, and dairy systems.
- MSU Slow Food Student Club
- MSU Student Organic Farm is a 15-acre certified organic year-round teaching and production farm south of campus.
- MSU Center for Regenerative Agriculture developing innovative frameworks and cutting-edge measurement, reporting, and verification processes that will support good stewardship of our land, water, and communities.
Student Food Access
Greater Lansing Area Community Food Links
- Farmer markets and local food retailers
- Allen Neighborhood Center
- Greater Lansing Food Bank
- Garden Project of GLFB
- Michigan Food and Farming Systems
Professional Organizations
Professional organizations provide training, conferences, student support, and job listings to assist professionals in finding their
- Ecological Society of America (Agroecology Section) - ecological bio sciences
- Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society - rural and food system social sciences
- Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies (ACSESS)
also known as the tri-societies including American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) - Sustainable Agriculture Education Association
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