Kentucky
List of Sustainability-Focused Extension Programs
Program: Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment
Institution: University of Kentucky
Category: Land, Air Quality/ Climate Change, Food, Water, Energy
Range: Kentucky statewide
Description: Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment is a cross-college entity at the University of Kentucky whose goal is to facilitate interdisciplinary efforts of faculty on campus to create transformative, new approaches to various environmental and sustainability issues that relate to today’s grand challenge: providing the food, energy, and water necessary to support an expanding global population in a sustainable manner in the face of a changing climate.
Program Offerings: Face-to-face trainings, Website
Program: Sustainable Agriculture Curriculum
Institution: University of Kentucky
Category: Land, Food, Water
Range: Kentucky statewide
Description: The basic charge of the SACC was to develop an integrative undergraduate curriculum and associated minor in Sustainable Agriculture with four principle goals.
- To provide students with fundamental knowledge, practical field experience, integrative skills and an understanding of agriculture in the broader society;
- To prepare students for careers in production agriculture, allied industries, and other public and private sector employment opportunities including land management and natural resource conservation;
- To engage non-agricultural students through a new Sustainable Agriculture Minor so that agriculture enjoys a broader societal support base; and
- To create within the Commonwealth of Kentucky an academically rigorous program that has the potential to enhance farm profitability, reduce the environmental impacts of agriculture, and strengthen the social connections between farmers and consumers
Program Offerings: Face-to-face trainings, Information
