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A new field course will be offered on campus this coming May.

Co-taught by Laurel Schut (College of Sustainability) and Paul Manning (Faculty of Agriculture), this course will explore the challenges and opportunities of measuring sustainability in a food context.

Why is measuring food sustainability important? We are becoming increasingly aware of the impacts that our food systems have on the sustainability of the听planet, the livelihoods of our food producers, and equitable accessibility for individuals. Integrating the expertise of numerous faculty and community leaders, this field course听explores听how food sustainability is measured听and evaluated听across different disciplines.听

Daily hands-on, active, and experiential learning听is emphasized throughout the course.听The course activities and assessments range听from agricultural biodiversity monitoring via beetle surveys to a summative design challenge exploring听a possible solution to a food sustainability measurement.

Through this field course, we will critically evaluate听a听myriad of ways听that we can measure food sustainability. We will use听a purposefully broad definition of food sustainability, that is adaptable depending on the听needs, interests, and听values of affected parties.听We will hear from and visit a wide variety of people working across a diverse cross-section of sustainability aligned to food.听

This course will be split between Halifax (5 days) and Truro (5 days). The course has a pre-requisite of 30-credit hours (10 courses) completed.

Please reach out to Paul Manning (paul.manning@dal.ca) for more information about the course.

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