FOOD & SOCIETY INITIATIVE (FAS) 
Committed to Being a Sustainable Food Community
As a Sustainable Food Community, UNH is committed to being a model community in the state and region. UNH is meeting this commitment through its University-wide Food & Agriculture Initiative (FAS), the mission of which is to integrate the ethics, science, technology, and policies of civic agriculture and community food security into the University’s identity and practices. To accomplish this mission, FAS is actively engaging the University community in local and sustainable agriculture and nutrition efforts across campus and beyond, including broad-based engagement and outreach programs that educate students, faculty, administrators, staff, and the larger community about the relationships among agriculture, food choices, nutrition, and economic and social well-being.
Under FAS, UNH is committed to:
- Local Procurement: Increasing the procurement of locally, regionally, and sustainably produced foods by UNH dining areas and within state institutions as appropriate.
- Civic Agriculture: Supporting sustainable methods of agriculture, including organic production. Reducing the vulnerability of local and regional farmers to destructive competition resulting from globalization and consolidation within the food and farming system.
- Food Solutions: Researching, developing, and demonstrating innovative solutions to agricultural and food system challenges in our region - including such challenges as production, procurement, soil health, composting, nutrition, and food security.
- Social Justice: Educating students and community about the relationships among individual and collective food choices, ecological and public health, and rural and community quality of life.
- Health & Wellness: Improving the health and well-being of community life through teaching, campus operations, research, and engagement efforts that support sustainable community-based food systems.
