C+C Spotlights

Interested in being featured in a C+C spotlight? You may focus on a scholarly or teaching collaboration with a community partner in any area of the country or world. Use our application form to submit your content.

Publication Year: 2025

Making Agricultural Trade Sustainable

Making Agricultural Trade Sustainable (MATS) project’s goal is to identify key leverage points for changes in global agricultural trade policy that foster positive impacts of trade on sustainable development and human rights while reducing negative impacts. The project centers key United Nations sustainable development goals (SDG) including: 1) ending poverty, 2)ending hunger and malnutrition, 3) ensuring healthy lives at all ages, 6) access to safe and affordable water and sanitation, 13)combatting climate change, and 15) life on the land – protecting, restoring, and promoting sustainable ecosystems. Professor Galina Hale’s involvement in the project came from her rather new interest in sustainability of global food systems. Her unique contribution to the discussion was related to the potential financial implications of proposed policy recommendations.

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Publication Year: 2023

The Psychological and Social Benefits of Agriculture with the Homeless Garden Project

Trevin Dace, a 2022 UCSC Sociology BA graduate, began his involvement with HGP by volunteering, which led to a summer internship. Inspired by his involvement, he wrote his senior thesis in collaboration with the Homeless Garden Project Farm from May 2021 to May 2022. His goal was to understand the physiological and social benefits of agriculture for the trainees (those affected by homelessness working through the program), volunteers, and staff who work on the farm.

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Decolonize the Surf

David Crellin created Decolonize the Surf for his Master of Fine Arts thesis in Digital Arts New Media. The project was created to present research about the history of representation and racism in surf culture and to encourage meaningful conversation in the surfing community around these issues.

A site-specific art and research project, Decolonize The Surf deployed over 400 surf-style stickers throughout surfing locales (surf spots, surf shops, cafes, parking lots, etc) from San Francisco to San Diego. The stickers, embedded with QR codes for scanning, introduce countervailing narratives that challenge typical surf histories and problematize assumptions of white normativity in the sport.

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