Blog Update

Learning From the Ground Up

As we are about to wrap up this amazing internship, we would like to touch on our project experience and how it has evolved over the summer. Although it has shifted quite a bit, we are very proud of the final product and hope that Land O'Lakes will utilize it in the future.

Blog Update

Journey to Feedu

Toward the end of the school year, each team was given a list of possible project ideas. The initial topic that our team chose for our summer project was concerning how the drought in California would affect agriculture.

Let’s put an end to global hunger.

Wanted: Inspired college students to create a more hopeful future.

Global hunger, meet your match.

The Global Food Challenge

By2050

9 Billion+ People

- Will Need -

70% More Food

The Program

What we're doing to help.

Emerging Leaders for Food Security™. A yearlong program.

10 college students (From 6 Leading Universities)

Finding new ways to feed the world using fewer resources.

Learn more about the program

Meet the Emerging Leaders

Emerging Leaders for Food Security, 2015 - 2016

Meet 10 inspired college students who are working with Land O’Lakes experts to find new ways to nourish a hungry planet.

“I may not come from an agricultural background, but I do have a place in food security.”

- Abby Adair, Purdue University, Emerging Leaders, 2015-2016

“What excites me the most about the experience I will have in the next year is just the ability to learn.”

- Addison Bidwell, Iowa State University, Emerging Leader 2015-2016

“It’s really a once-in-a-lifetime chance … to learn a lot about where your food comes from and how you can have an impact on the world.”

- Ayse Muratoglu, George Washington University, Emerging Leader, 2015-2016

“With Land O’Lakes and the team I’m on … we all have the means to make a difference. We are set up for success.”

- Blake Schweiner, University of Minnesota, Emerging Leader, 2015-2016

“Food security matters to me because it’s not just one nation’s problem – it’s a human issue, a global issue.”

- Diana Fu, Northwestern University, Emerging Leader, 2015-2016

“I want to make sure every single day I’m making a difference with my work.”

- Elizabeth Alonzi, University of Minnesota, Emerging Leader, 2015-2016

“Food security is more than just feeding the world – it’s also about making sure people get the right nutrients and the right foods to eat.”

- Katie Enzenauer, University of Minnesota, Emerging Leader, 2015-2016

“My idea is not to gain more land, but to gain more from our land … more calorie content from the crops we are producing.”

- Leah Ellensohn, Iowa State University, Emerging Leader, 2015-2016

“It’s so important to have different minds come together to try to solve this problem.”

- Megan Schnell, Iowa State University, Emerging Leader, 2015-2016

“This isn’t just something that’s only happening to a certain part of the world … it’s going to affect every single one of us in the long term.”

- Sydney Gray, Purdue University, Emerging Leader, 2015-2016

Make a Difference

What you can do.

Graduating from college in 2019?
Apply now for a Global Food Challenge fellowship –
and a chance to change the world.

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