Welcome
The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS) is a sustainable agriculture and food systems research center in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
CIAS fosters transdisciplinary inquiry and supports a range of research, outreach and professional development opportunities. It brings together university faculty, students, staff, farmers, policy makers and other practitioners to study relationships between farming practices and profitability, the structure of the food system, the environment, and rural vitality.
CIAS was created to build sustainable agriculture and food systems research programs that respond to farmer and citizen needs. Join our network!
Latest News
Food systems and climate change prep for COP 28 in November
Rural Partnerships Initiative Grant-Funded Fall Harvest Event
CIAS Senior Researcher Michelle Miller Featured in The Badger Herald Article Discussing Local Food Systems Infrastructure
Now Hiring: Natural Resources Specialist/Soil Scientist/Agronomist
JAFSCD Wicked Problems in Food Systems Workshop Series
Now Hiring: Graduate Assistantship Opportunity with the UW-Madison Rural Partnership Initiative
Now Hiring: University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension Job Announcements
Now Hiring: Indigenous Food Sovereignty Outreach Specialist
Events
- Dec 4
- 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Joan Broderick Radical SAM: How Nature Generates and Controls Reactive Radical Intermediates
- Dec 5
- 8:30 AM Global Conversations: Connect SOUTH ASIA
- 8:30 AM Global Conversations CONNECT – South Asia
- Dec 7
- 2:00 PM IPiB Thesis Review: Katherine Senn Regulation of pre-mRNA splicing efficiency and fidelity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Dec 18
- 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium: Karim-Jean Armache Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulation
- May 15
- 8:00 AM Dairy Symposium presented by the Dairy Innovation Hub
- Nov 20
- 9:00 AM Dairy Summit hybrid conference Presented by the Dairy Innovation Hub
Upcoming
February 1-3 GrassWorks Annual Grazing Conference
February 2-3 OGRAIN Winter Conference
February 2-3 Organic Vegetable Production Conference
February 22-24 Marbleseed Organic Farming Conference