Our interdisciplinary, international team develops holistic technology- and policy-based solutions that focus on all areas of the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus, enhancing climate resilience and protecting global public health.
Apply now for the 2025 Global STEWARDS undergraduate program!
The Global STEWARDS undergraduate program is an initiative to enhance undergraduate education and the global community by providing hands-on experiences, fostering innovation, and solving problems within the FEW nexus. Selected students complete three program elements:
1) Experiential Education
2) Global FEWture International Webinar Series
3) Summer Internship or Research Credits
Click here for more information on this program.
Applications are due November 15, 2024.
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Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Global FEWture Alliance interns from Mbeya University of Science and Technology completed a 10-week training in Dodoma, Tanzania, on agricultural innovation and climate resilience.
Check out our profile of the interns at CultivAid's AITEC farm!
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Wines of Africa: CultivAid's success in grape farmer training in Tanzania
Unlocking the Grape Value Chain aims to modernize and improve grape production and the value chain, by strengthening agricultural productivity, building knowledge in the grape sector, and supporting the transition in the economic activity of the region from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture. The projects train farmers, establish demonstration sites, provide market connectivity and to improve the quality of grapes in the region. Over the next 3 years the program is targeting 2,000 farmers and working to change practices to single harvest, with a focus on quality.
The program is funded by the Livelihood Impact Fund and the Global FEWture Alliance
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Good Neighbor Day attracts food forest-loving volunteers
In a collaboration between the Global FEWture Alliance and Good Neighbor Day, we turned out 18 volunteers to upgrade the two Hyattsville Food Forests at Emerson and McClanahan! These helpful community members, including UMD graduate and undergraduate students, planted new bushes and shrubs, trimmed dead growth, and dug post holes to support the blackberries. This winter, their efforts will take root, and next spring they'll bloom.
Hyattsville Food Forests
Do Good: Rainwater Harvesting for Urban Farms
President Pines is featured in this short profile of Dr. Rachel Rosenberg Goldstein's rainwater harvesting work with Farmer Chippy at Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm in Baltimore. Check it out!
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Israel FEWture
Israel Research and Capacity Building
Maryland FEWture
Maryland Research and Capacity Building
Nepal FEWture
Nepal Research and Capacity Building
Tanzania FEWture
Tanzania Research and Capacity Building
Experiential Education
Project-based Learning Opportunities
Community-Driven Capacity Building
Inclusive, Holistic ApproachesRe-Forested!
Graduate students in MIEH 690 took a field trip to the 10-acre Bowie agroecology site, Forested, founded and managed by Lincoln Smith. Many biodynamics were there to consider: edible species including both native and non-native fruits, veggies, and herbs; grafting techniques that enhance the fruit yield and taste of existing rootstocks; adjacent mature forest with wild orchids; humanure composting. See photos from our visit below!
