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Solving Real-World Food Challenges Through Interdisciplinary Innovation

The Sustainable Agriculture (SUSAG) program at Iowa State University equips students to have a positive global impact by training them to think across disciplines to tackle real-world challenges in food security, environmental quality, and community development. Our graduate program is intended to integrate knowledge and problem-solving skills from the agricultural sciences with those from ecology, the social sciences, and ethics.

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Academics

The program provides advanced training for students and facilitates interdisciplinary research focused from experienced faculty across our 20+ departments, spanning the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Design, Engineering, Human Sciences, and Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Our program is a vibrant community of students, faculty, and staff who share a commitment to maintaining and improving agricultural productivity while working toward an agriculture that is more just and environmentally sound.
Kurt Rosentrater, Program Chair

Cooperating Departments