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Communities organize around many things but the most natural focus for collaboration is food.  Food is not only life sustaining but provides seeds for local economic development.  A community-based food-systems approach has the potential to simultaneously address issues of food security, public health, social justice, and ecological health in local communities and regions, as well as economic vitality of agriculture and rural communities. 

Here is a draft of Perspectives from the "Big Tent" global dialogue on Community-University Research and Engagement to be held on October 17, 2011. This is the second global statement by the "Big Tent" group of international community university research and engagement networks and will be finalised following discussions that will be chaired from the University of Glasgow by Dr Rajesh Tandon of PRIA and Professor Michael Osborne of PASCAL amongst the networks.

We welcome comments from our subscribers in advance of the dialogue and thereafter.

Friends,

The various global community engagement networks will be holding a global video dialogue mid October on “the Future of CU Research and Engagement”.  This will also be a topic of future work with the Global University Network for Innovation team as well.

In support of this work, we would appreciate five minutes of your time.  Please use the comment facility below or contact one of the undesigned to give us a heading and 2-3 sentences (and a link if helpful) about: