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IHP Food Systems: Agriculture, Sustainability, and Justice

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SIT IHP Food Systems: Agriculture, Sustainability, and Justice is a unique comparative semester-long study abroad program taking students to the USA, Ecuador, Malawi, and Italy.

20/03/2020

Meet the IHP Food Systems Team (episode 5)

Name: Pamela Guachamín
Hometown: Quito, Ecuador
Education: Master in International Media Studies
Position: Host Family and Logistics Coordinator.

“I believe education is a powerful tool to change the world. I am thankful for being part of a country team, because I can share my country and culture with students willing to learn and to live a life changing experience. Students should do this program because it’s about learning by living and loving. Each activity will challenge you in a good way so you learn and grow personally and professionally. You will be part of a community that will become your family. Ecuador is important to visit because it includes progressive laws regarding nature and agriculture in its constitution. However, laws not always translate into realities and remain only as good intentions. Our country offers a good example of the complexities and contradictions within Food Systems.”

20/03/2020

Like so many folks around the globe right now, we are making some adjustments to our program and our plans. Last week, the IHP Food Systems students said goodbye to our amazing and dedicated colleagues in Ecuador and we have moved the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester to an online format. Of course we are disappointed not to work with our partners and friends in Malawi and Italy this semester in person, but, in the context of what we are all experiencing right now, our team is showing their understanding and resilience. Our gratitude to Geoff, Charity, Paola and Antonella for all the amazing work you did planning the next two months.

03/03/2020

Learning about different ways to fertilize the soil: composting, bioles, bocashi and others. @ Chaupi Molino organic farm in Puembo. With Pacho Our environment faculty and his daughter Valentina manager at the farm. @ Chaupi, Pichincha, Ecuador

20/02/2020

Meet the IHP Food Systems Team (Episode 4)

Name: Estefanía Sánchez López
Hometown: Quito, Ecuador
Education: Msc in Urbanization and Development
Position(s): Ecuador Country Coordinator for IHP Food Systems and President at Balance Works

"I do this work to create educational programs that balance theory and practice, while inspiring students to become learners in their lives. It is important for students to learn about the world, but also from the world through site visits, multiple stakeholders, homestay families with a food lens. I think it is important to be in Ecuador to explore a cultural and biological diverse country that is negotiating, contesting and transforming food systems at a constitutional and practical level."

19/02/2020

Meet our IHP Food Systems Team (Episode 3)

Name: Peter Seilheimer
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Education: BA Lewis & Clark College, German/Russian Major, Gender Studies Minor
MA Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, International Education
Position: Program Manager (IHP Food Systems and IHP Health and Community)

“I do this work for the amazing people in the IHP family. IHP programs interrogate systems of power and privilege and learn, by engaging with folks of all walks of life, about the solutions made possible through solidarity and community. It is a study abroad opportunity wherein success is measured by the strength of relationships students make with each other and the communities they become a part of, instead of grades or how many likes your Instagram posts get. Students encounter abundant and varied opportunities on IHP to challenge their assumptions and ethnocentrism, practice reflexivity, and push themselves to expand their humanity. It is thrilling but also humbling to get to work with students when they are posed such existential questions about life, learning, and social justice. This kind of learning is difficult and often jarring, but it is gratifying and even heartwarming to see students lean into it and make themselves a bit vulnerable. I’m in more of an administrative role now, but I feel so grateful that I get to be a part of that process at all.

Students who are interested in being active in their own learning and collaborating with others should absolutely do IHP. Students who are seeking a unique semester abroad that is anything but a “semester off” should do IHP. Students who are invested in social justice, collective learning and creating community and students who are interested in being architects of their learning and growth and not passive consumers of education should do IHP.”

17/02/2020

Meet the IHP Food Systems Team

Name: Kasey Armstrong
Hometown: Bellingham, MA
Education: B.S. in Environmental Science, M.A. in Leadership & Social Change / Environment & Community
Position: Trustees Fellow

“As a Fellow, I get to help students get the most out of their semester abroad by facilitating collective learning and collaborative leadership experiences, and helping us all to maintain individual and collective wellness throughout the semester. IHP is a transformative experience that will deepen your ability to examine and think critically about our global food system, and simultaneously make you a more self-aware, reflective, and curious learner and person. You will be challenged intellectually, emotionally, and culturally, and you will meet amazing people, build relationships, and learn about inspiring work that is happening across the world to address historical and current wicked problems in our food system. When we limit ourselves to only learning from our own experiences and our formal teachers, we miss out on so much. Embracing the opportunity to learn from peers, homestay families, local staff and community members on IHP makes the experience much more rich and productive, and empowers each of us to bring our lived experiences into the learning arena. IHP embraces the idea that the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts; when we take a collective approach to learning, we achieve and grow more than we would on our own.”

15/02/2020

Meet the IHP Food Systems Team

Name: Lowery Parker
Hometown: Albany, GA
Education: PhD in Geography and Integrative Conservation from UGA
Positions: Georgia Launch Coordinator and Spring Traveling Faculty

“My goal is to bring the histories and stories of the US South into perspective for students interested in transforming unjust food systems. Fundamental to this task is understanding the history of plantation agriculture as the basis of the current industrial agricultural complex. The state of Georgia provides an ideal geography to interrogate “past” agricultural models and how they shape the present, most notably in the labor required to sustain large-scale commodity production of crops such as peanuts and cotton. The South as a region also holds a primary place in the US culinary imagination, both for its cuisine and for the idea of “hospitality” as a condition of community. Tracing a Southern food history through Georgia’s enslaved peoples, farmers, chefs, workers and activists allows IHP students to interrogate questions with immediate social relevancy: How do agricultural production models shape current immigration attitudes and policy? What are the possibilities for racial justice in regards to land ownership in the US? How do cultural and environmental elements of “the New South” (reflected in its food systems) provide a way forward for an increasingly divided American population?”

12/02/2020

Lovely view taken on the first afternoon of our Quito homestay. Looking forward to learning so much from the generous and caring homestay families. Photo credit: Shoshanna Hoover, IHP Food Systems Spring 2020

12/02/2020

With its varied altitudes, Ecuador is home to fruits ranging from tropical to temperate. A few fun fruit facts: Ecuador has over 125,000 hectares of land under banana cultivation and Ecuador is the worlds largest exporter of passion fruit concentrate. Photo credit: Marissa Rose Alfiero, IHP Food Systems Spring 2020

10/02/2020

From our new residence for orientation in Puembo, Ecuador. Photo credit: Michele Matsuoka, IHP Food Systems, Spring 2020

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https://studyabroad.sit.edu/programs/semester/spring-2020/rfs/

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