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Meeting a ‘generational challenge’: Feeding the world and doing it sustainably
cows in new bolton center pasture

(Homepage image) Cattle contribute a quarter of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions, yet animal protein can be an invaluable source of nutrition and way of combatting malnutrition around the globe. The new Center’s work is stepping into this tension, says Parsons, to address “a generational challenge.” (Image: Penn Vet)

Meeting a ‘generational challenge’: Feeding the world and doing it sustainably

With the launch of the Center for Stewardship Agriculture and Food Security, the School of Veterinary Medicine is working “to make animal agriculture part of a solution to a more resilient, sustainable, and equitable future.”

Katherine Unger Baillie

A week of building climate knowledge, awareness, and action
Person waters a row of crops at a farm

Hands-on events for Climate Week include a tour of Penn Park Farm, a bioblitz at the Biopond, and planting sessions at Penn Park and the Andrew Hamilton School.

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A week of building climate knowledge, awareness, and action

With nearly 30 events planned for Oct. 10-14, Penn’s Climate Week invites the Penn community to “find your place in the climate movement.”

Katherine Unger Baillie