The Family Advantage! program and Youth Advantage! Sustainable Sciences Internship are based at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources Hale Tuahine Farm in Mānoa.
CTAHR’s Extension team in Molokaʻi encourages the idea of thinking like a papaya in order to help the papaya crops flourish in dry regions and foster new farm families.
The annual event is an opportunity for keiki to learn about food production and environmental sustainability, and explore a possible career in agriculture and environmental studies.
Approximately 270 first-year students discussed what they can do to ensure access to nutritious food in Hawaiʻi at the first Town Hall on Food Insecurity and Sustainability.
Experiential learning opportunity allows horticultural students at UH Hilo to conduct trials on the possibility of growing exotic rice in East Hawaiʻi.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers are working with a third-generation farming family to better understand challenges to their livelihoods on Oʻahu.
The team demonstrated how biocultural restoration produces healthy local food, supports vibrant communities and provides clean water to downstream coral reef and fish pond ecosystems.
Hawaiʻi could have sustained approximately 250,000 acres of traditional agroecosystems, potentially producing more than one million metric tons of food annually.