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
CIAS, Tribal partners awarded $10 million USDA grant for collaborative effort working to support Native American foodways in Great Lakes region

Aug 13th
20240813
CIAS, Tribal partners awarded $10 million USDA grant for collaborative effort working to support Native American foodways in Great Lakes region
INVITE: Collaborating for Regional Food Systems

Jan 30th
20250130
INVITE: Collaborating for Regional Food Systems
Register Today for the 2025 Upper Midwest Hazelnut Growers Conference!

Jan 14th
20250114
Register Today for the 2025 Upper Midwest Hazelnut Growers Conference!
NRCS Wisconsin Announces Application Deadline for Conservation Stewardship Program

Jan 8th
20250108
NRCS Wisconsin Announces Application Deadline for Conservation Stewardship Program
CIAS 35th Anniversary Celebration with Dr. Danielle Resnick

Oct 14th
20241014
CIAS 35th Anniversary Celebration with Dr. Danielle Resnick
Cider Class – DIY Cider – Fermenting Cider at Home @ Madison Tasting Room

Oct 1st
20241001
Cider Class – DIY Cider – Fermenting Cider at Home @ Madison Tasting Room
New Paper: Resilience strategies for academic centers focused on food systems transformations

Sep 30th
20240930
New Paper: Resilience strategies for academic centers focused on food systems transformations
Events
- Feb 12
- 12:05 PM Science Communication Colloquium Auditing Equity in Large Language Models: Insights from Dialogue and Image Classification Tasks with Kaiping Chen, University of Wisconsin
- 3:30 PM Genetics Spring Colloquium Bret Payseur, UW-Madison
- Feb 13
- Feb 17
- 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium - Tamir Gonen MicroED solution to the MP20 enigma
- Feb 19
- 12:05 PM Science Communication Colloquium With Jessica Eise, Indiana University
- 3:30 PM Genetics Spring Colloquium David Greenstein, University of Minnesota
- Feb 24
- 3:00 PM Biochemistry Colloquium - Shiv Grewal - SEMINAR CANCELLED Unveiling the mechanisms of heterochromatic gene silencing and epigenetic inheritance