Balancing our food system and planetary health to create a better world.To develop change makers and leaders who improve global health through science, innovation and positive actions that recognize the critical connections between soil, plants, animals, humans, and the environment.We will achieve our Mission by:Ensuring agricultural systems promote planetary health – sustainable stewardship of Earth’s natural resources, improved human health and animal welfare – through research and teaching.Addressing critical societal and cultural issues through engagement between faculty, staff, students, Indigenous peoples, and local and global communities.Collaborating within and across disciplines to conduct research with purpose and impact.Utilizing our physical and virtual spaces to enhance teaching, research and community development.Experts in our faculty — including our students — are developing workable solutions that address global issues in the areas of health, sustainable food systems and managing our limited resources. We learn together, ask questions of each other, innovate, iterate and collaborate across disciplines and industries to solve problems. Through co-op work terms, field experiences, community projects and international study, our students develop a rich complement of skills and competencies that not only gives them a competitive advantage upon graduation, but that pushes them farther down the road to creating lasting change.The world needs saving. We create the thinkers who go out and do it.
