Progress 12/11/20 to 09/30/21
Outputs
Target Audience:Food and beverage industry - primary target Pacific Northwest stakeholders including food processors across all commodity areas, suppliers of ingredients, equipment and services, non-profit industry organizations providing training, support and access to sustainability solutions (e.g. Food Northwest, Oregon Dairy Industries, Oregon Section Institute of Food Technologists). Academic and Agency researchers - university collaborators within Oregon State University and existing Food Science and Technologies research programs, Extension specialists with an emphasis on the PNW and Western US. Regulatory Agencies - Oregon Department of Agriculture, Food Safety regulators, other. Consumers of food - consumers are a critical audience to enable more fact and science based decision making, influence support for investment in research, education and outreach and overall engage in more seamless change management for making food systems more sustainable. Changes/Problems:Capacity and capability gaps will continue to slow progress so FST is spearheading a CAS-wide SFM Legislative Initiative for 2023 to drive significant investment in the program. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Presentations to FST faculty from Invited subject matter experts in Sustainability How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Presentations to OSU College of Agricultural Sciences leadership, Extension partners in all commodity areas FST supports. Inclusion in conference sessions moderated (e.g. 2021 ADPI Global Cheese Technology Forum) What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?- FST and BEE collaborative proposal for 2022 USDA NIFA SAS $10M multiyear grant for Center for Sustainable Beverage Manufacturing. Span will be Western US including education, research and outreach. - Launch Sustainable Food Manufacturing Forum in April bringing diverse stakeholders together around Food Innovation Hubs to reinforce and expand the network and identify priority areas to create sustainable coalitions. - Develop and execute a funding strategy (grant and philanthropy) the increase success rate and complement fundraising for FST Wiegand Hall. - Advance 2023 Sustainable Food Systems Legislative Initiative including broadened stakeholder input and support and increased coalition across CAS potential collaborators.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
- OSU Food Science and Technology is strategically integrating sustainability into all parts of its mission with stakeholder support and guidance. - Strategy development that will create cohesive approach across FST, enable communication plan, drive stakeholder engagement and fundraising efforts. - funding pursued via OSU and externally to create capacity for the significant body of new work and enable greater collaboration across an expanded stakeholder network. - create mechanisms to improve stakeholder understanding of our food systems to better enable support for, engagement with and increased collaboration with OSU's efforts. - 2021 launch of new undergraduate curriculum integrating sustainability. Redesign was done with stakeholder input to redefine learning outcomes, change existing courses to elevate content across all pillars of sustainability and launch new Sustainable Food Processing course. -2020 launch of a monthly webinar series, Farm 2 Fork, designed to expand FST's network by bringing stories about how our food systems work, how they're changing by the people who are changing them. The goal is to enable a more common understanding and increase engagement leading to collaborations, enrollment and philanthropy. Expansion of FST network, consistent positive survey feedback, referenced by student recruits. - approved CAS Strategic Advantage grant for the Innovation Center for Sustainable Food Manufacturing. $50K/year with opportunity to renew for year 2 if approved. - advancing sustainability research across all FST programs including multiple significant federal grants awarded (e.g. Smoke impact on wine).
Publications
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