Dr. Nancy Creamer, CEFS Co-Director from NC State; Dr. Ricardo Salvador; Dr. John M. O’Sullivan, CEFS Co-Director from NC A&T; and Dr. William Randle, Dean of the School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at NC A&T (L-R)
CEFS kicked off its twentieth anniversary with a special reception on April 1 featuring Dr. Ricardo Salvador. Dr. Salvador is the Senior Scientist and Director of the Food and Environment Program at Union of Concerned Scientists. From 2006 to 2012, Dr. Salvador was the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Program Officer. While there, he was instrumental in the awarding of twin endowments to NC State and NC A&T, creating the W.K. Kellogg Distinguished Professorships in Sustainable Agriculture and Community-Based Food Systems at both institutions.
Says Dr. Salvador, “We saw CEFS, and the partnership between NC State and NC A&T, as a national model for food systems change, one in which they could leverage their institutional partnerships, innovative civic engagement programs, and supply chain expertise to transform the state’s food system to make it not only more sustainable, but also more equitable for vulnerable communities who often lack access to local and fresh foods.”
Dr. Salvador also delivered a lecture as part of NC State College of Agriculture and Life Science’s Future of Food Series. Watch Dr. Salvador’s lecture, “Fooling the Nine Billion: Why We Need Good Food, Not More Food, and the Role of Land Grant Universities.”
Learn more about Dr. Salvador.
From the May 2014 E-Newsletter