Job opportunity: FAO Team Leader of locusts and transboundary plant pests and diseases

Rare opportunity to lead the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations' efforts in this important area. FAO is encouraging individuals to apply who have experience with IPM, transboundary pests

Should you eat fish from community ponds?

ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcome Deputy Director Beth Polidoro and her team recently took part in a study investigating the health implications of eating fish from stock ponds around Phoenix.

Recreational fisheries need new management, says sustainability scientist

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Senior Sustainability Scientist Joshua Abbott is a principal author of a new opinion paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences titled “Governing the

Postdoctoral researcher Marion Le Gall reviews summer 2018 fieldwork

This post was written by Marion Le Gall, a postdoctoral researcher in Arizona State University's Cease Lab. Last summer, with Master of Science in sustainability student Mira Word having brilliantly defended her

Meet affiliated faculty Chrissie Bausch

Read on for an interview with Julia (Chrissie) Bausch, postdoctoral scholar with the Kyl Center for Water Policy at the Morrison Institute for Public Policy.

The vegan event of all vegan events

The vegan smorgasbord on Aly Stoffo’s plate might be overwhelming for anyone else, but that is exactly what she’s cooking up. The food feast in her academic oven is a plant-based food event called: Eat Well Live Well.

A spark to start the fire

Sparking new ideas is the goal of the new Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems research grant program. Ten grants of up to $5,000 each will be awarded to Arizona State University faculty-led research teams proposing interdisciplinary food systems work.

ASU-STRI call for grant proposals

The ASU-Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is excited to announce its spring 2019 call for grant proposals. There are two research foci: (1) Resilience, adaptive evolution and the effects of changing

ASU professor’s Mexico research garners local award for Latina/o achievement

Maria Cruz-Torres has been documenting a lesser-seen side of Sinaloa’s prized seafood industry — its female shrimp traders — for 20 years.

ASU professor’s Mexico research garners local award for Latina/o achievement

ASU Now Maria Cruz-Torres, a senior sustainability scientist and an associate professor in the School of Transborder Studies, has been documenting a lesser-seen side of Sinaloa’s prized seafood industry — its female

Raj Patel

Interview with food systems activist Raj Patel

After sustainable food activist Raj Patel delivered a Wrigley Lecture in November, we conducted a follow-up interview, which covered topics ranging from the need for collective action to what Patel wishes the media would report on in regards to our food system.

Sustainability scientist Nancy Grimm wins fellowship

Senior Sustainability Scientist Nancy Grimm, the Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Ecology in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, was named a 2019 Fellow of the Society