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Helping the people of Michigan, the United States, and the world develop regionally integrated and sustainable food systems.

About CRFS

The newly-established MSU Center for Regional Food Systems brings together the applied research, education, and outreach expertise of faculty and staff at MSU to advance understanding of and engagement with regional food systems throughout Michigan, the United States, and the world. The Center’s efforts leverage the earlier work and partnerships of MSU’s former C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems and the MSU Student Organic Farm.

Affiliated MSU faculty and staff in agriculture, health and nutrition, economics, sociology, and other disciplines  contribute their expertise to the Center’s research, education, and outreach on food systems issues from agricultural production and marketing techniques to healthy corner store initiatives in low-income areas. To date, the MSU Center for Regional Food Systems has engaged over 50 MSU faculty and staff from a dozen academic departments and five colleges, along with MSU AgBioResearch scientists and MSU Extension specialists, as affiliates of the Center.

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News

"Creating Change" Report Released

2012-04-26
The "Creating Change in the Food System" report on the Regional Food Systems Working Group in Iowa is now available.

Website Under Construction

2012-04-05
Welcome to our preliminary website! Its content is limited, as we work to ready our full, comprehensive site for launch this summer.

Gray's Matters: CRFS launch

2012-04-05
MSU's Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies announces creation of the Center for Regional Food Systems.

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