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Guest speaker Nadia Barhoum talks about Palestinian Seeds, Land, & Liberation

by Christy Mei Vong
May 09, 2025

On Wednesday, May 14 at guest speaker Nadia Barhoum will speak on “Palestine: Seeds, Land, & Liberation” on Zoom.

Candace Fujikane on Asian Settler Activism in an Era of Climate Change

by Christy Mei Vong
May 02, 2025

On Wednesday, April 30 at 12pm, Candace Fujikane gave a talk called “Asian Settler Activism in an Era of Climate Change” over Zoom as part of the Asian American Seed Stewards guest lecture series with Amado Khaya Initiative.

Environmental Justice in the Phillipines with Liyang Network

by Christy Mei Vong
April 30, 2025

On April 25, the Liyang Network presented "Report Back from the Philippines" to share their observations, experiences, and lessons they have learned in international solidarity work as part of this year's guest lecture series.

Photo of Mao and four others listening to her explain

Asian American Seed Stewards Project is a recipient of UC Davis Global Affairs 2024-25 Grants for Advancing Sustainable Development Goals!

by Christy Mei Vong
April 01, 2025

The Asian American Seed Stewards Lab team was awarded grant funding from Global Affairs' 2024-2025 grants for Advancing Sustainable Development Goals for the project titled: “Developing a Toolkit for Global Education through Hmong Herbs: Community-Engaged Education and Practice Involving Health Equity, Food Justice, and Cultural Diversity.”

SCOPE research team created a poster for the 2023 UC Davis Plant Sciences Symposium titled "Culturally Informed, Participatory Breeding of Celtuce"

by Savannah Pluma, Deysi Alvaro, Huy Lin Lim, Laura Roser, Antonia Palkovic
May 09, 2023

Check out the SCOPE Celtuce Breeding Poster! The poster summarizes the project's background, key breeding goals, materials and methods, participating farm locations, and results.

Meeting with Our Community Partners, Asian American Farmers, of the Participatory Breeding Project!

by Lin Lim
February 16, 2023

As we get ready to distribute F2 generation celtuce seeds to growers, a collaborative meeting was held over zoom to better connect our researchers and growers beyond just google forms and emails.

API Farmers Project is selected for the 2022-2023 PIRI Grant Recipient

by An Do
May 01, 2022

The Public Impact Research Initiative (PIRI) was established through Public Scholarship and Engagement (PSE) to recognize and support research that is cogenerated with community partners, is of mutual benefit, and has a positive public impact.

We are launching an interdisciplinary seminar on the API farmers in CA and cultural memory banking!

by An Do
January 01, 2022

We are pleased to introduce an interdisciplinary seminar, “Seed Saving and Cultural Memory Banking Community-Engaged Participatory Plant Breeding with the API Farmers in CA” to the community.

Please join our symposium, "Seed to Asian Heritage: Rediscovering Historical Roots, Food Diversity, and Environmental Sustainability"!

by Lin Lim
April 14, 2021

Please join our symposium, "Seed to Asian Heritage: Rediscovering Historical Roots, Food Diversity, and Environmental Sustainability through Local Farm in Davis" on May 6th!

Some of the project teams that received Grants for Advancing Sustainable Development.

API Farmers Project Won the Award from the Global Affairs

by An Do
March 05, 2021

The API Farmers Project team received an award from the UC Davis Global Affairs. Through annual grants, faculty in the College of Letters and Science provide students with global learning experiences and work toward goals such as ending hunger and eradicating inequalities. The selected projects of 2021 feature collaborations across UC Davis and institutions worldwide, fostering partnerships that will advance groundbreaking research.