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The UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies aims to achieve five main objectives through its work:
The UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies draws on four main strengths:
Our strengths facilitate, direct, and inform the breadth of our work and permeate the Chair’s research, knowledge sharing, and educational initiatives. They reflect how we do our work and enable us to use the Chair as a platform for change.
Building on our identified strengths and areas of expertise will allow us to meet our program objectives and effectively leverage the UNESCO Chair on Food, Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies as a platform for sustainable food systems change.
While the specific actions of the Chair will be determined in ongoing consultation with our research and advisory networks and in response to community partner needs and changing global contexts, we have identified five high level strategies to guide our work to 2024:
In the spring of 2020, over 30 advisors, researchers, community partners, and students participated in a collaborative strategic planning consultation process. One of the results of that process was the UNESCO Chair FBSS Strategic Plan for 2020-2024.
The Strategic Plan provides more in-depth information about the Chair’s Areas of Expertise, Strengths, and its Action Plan moving forward:
Contact Us:
Alison Blay-Palmer, Chairholder
Adrienne Johnson, Associate Director
Elisabeth Miltenburg, Project Coordinator
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