2021 Grants for Advancing Sustainable Development Goals Projects

Culturally Diverse Participatory Public Plant Breeding: Supporting Farmers of the Asian Diaspora
 

Award recipients: Ga Young Chung, assistant professor of Asian American studies in the College of Letters and Science; E. Charles Brummer, professor of plant sciences and director of the Center for Plant Breeding in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and Katharina Ullmann, director of the Student Farm in the Agricultural Sustainability Institute.

The team plans to build a collaboration between UC Davis’ departments of Plant Sciences and Asian American Studies, the UC Davis Student Farm, along with Namu Farm, a farm focused on Korean vegetables based in Winters, California and the state’s Asian Diaspora community. Since the diets of people around the world are culturally diverse, the team hopes to build more understanding and begin to develop a public breeding program that accounts for culturally relevant foods, addresses food security, and broadens the education of UC Davis students in participating in this work.

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