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The Global Food Systems Institute (GFSI) is a UF/IFAS initiative aimed at addressing the greatest challenge of our time — providing safe and nutritious food for a growing global population while enhancing livelihoods, societies, and the environment. 

Your partnership fuels groundbreaking research, capacity-building, and on-the-ground solutions that improve nutrition, livelihoods, and environmental resilience across the globe. Whether you’re interested in supporting a specific region, thematic area, or capacity-building fellowship, we make it easy to direct your contribution and see the difference it makes. 

Our research ranges from: 

• Making livestock, aquaculture, and fisheries more productive resilient, and sustainable.
• In Burkina Faso, educating on the perceived belief that children who eat eggs will become thieves.
• Using cactus to improve livestock and provide biogas so Maasai women in Kenya can cook safely at home and avoid wild animals.

Your support can also give a student an opportunity to take their first international trip and support efforts to improve ?food security:

• "What struck me most was the unwavering dedication of the smallholder Tanzanian farmers. They are hungry for knowledge and eager to improve their practices. They know the land and the animals. But there is a major gap when it comes to access to modern farming practices and information that could be applied to their context."

—  Onan Martinez, Ph.D. '25.

Learn more about our work in food security