High impact sustainable transdisciplinary collaboration model for food justice

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article summarizes the development of a High Impact Sustainable Transdisciplinary Collaboration Model for Food Justice based on the work done by faculty from different disciplines—engineering, business, and agriculture—with their corresponding courses in the last 5 years. Our experience aims to show the general picture of sustainable entrepreneurship education through our transdisciplinary collaboration model to promote experiential learning, generating interest among students across traditional disciplinary boundaries to explore problems from different perspectives and create sustainable solutions in a concrete, real-life context. Our model requires transdisciplinary collaboration, where students from diverse academic majors develop the knowledge and skills associated with their respective fields and apply them in a unique setting to solve food security issues. This experience has been formalized into a Preparation, Action, Reflection, and Evaluation (P.A.R.E.) Community-Engaged Scholarship Model that infuses sustainability and that can be easily understood and transferred to other institutions with similar contexts and challenges.