Welcome Director Silva!

Kate VandenBosch, outgoing dean of the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, announced the appointment of Erin Silva as the director of […]

Concentration in the food system

CIAS faculty associates, students and staff responded to USDA’s request for information on concentration in food retail and distribution. The joint letter details new research […]

The Heifer Grazing Compass

In collaboration with the Grassland 2.0 project, CIAS is pleased to announce the availability of the Heifer Grazing Compass, the first in a suite of […]

Clif Bar awards $1m endowment for organic outreach at UW

Clif Bar & Company, the largest private donor to organic research in the US, announced June 16 a second endowment to UW-Madison CALS to support […]

Global Action to End Hunger: Prospects for 2030

Four people in the CIAS network will discuss efforts to reach the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal #2 — zero hunger by 2030: ‘End hunger, […]

Wattiaux awarded Fulbright

CIAS is pleased to announce that our interim director Michel Wattiaux received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in dairy science for the 2022-2023 academic […]

2022 summer mini grants awards

The CIAS Mini-Grant Program provides funding for graduate students to conduct research and outreach projects over the course of a single summer. In 2022, nine […]

Ride to Farm 2022!

Join us for a beautiful 100k, or half-day, ride in Green County on June 4th, 2022. Our 18th Annual Ride to Farm event will start […]

The People’s Farm

F.H. King Students for Sustainable Agriculture is a student organization working to promote sustainable agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This UW-Madison student organization is affiliated with CIAS.

2022 Summer Mini-Grant Program for Graduate Students