Human Services

Through participatory research, Dr. Ankita Raturi is working to develop technological tools that can build resilience in the food system. An Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural & Biological…

Midlife was once considered a time to enjoy the fruits of one’s years of work and parenting. That is no longer true in the U.S. Deaths of despair and chronic…

Growing food in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way – while also producing enough of it – is among the most important challenges facing the U.S. and the world today. The…

Government policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, including cash transfers and tax credits, reduced poverty in New York City, even while poverty citywide—particularly among minorities—persisted well above national averages, a report…

Sliding off their backpacks as they come through the front door of the local Boys and Girls Club, a group of students grab pool cues. Outside, children laugh as they…

Kat Becker feeds hundreds of people with the vegetables she grows on her Wisconsin farm, and she wants to expand. But her ability to grow her business collides with her…

Cultivated meat company Aleph Farms released a white paper, “An Inclusive Solution Towards the Transition to a Sustainable and Resilient Meat Sector,” on the importance of balancing meat sector transformation with respect…

The harmful consequences of climate change are broad, from extreme weather events making locations uninhabitable to increased temperatures delivering larger and more frequent downstream damages, such as drought and increased hurricanes. These effects…

As we well know, people incarcerated in jails and prisons experience constant trauma, and are surrounded by brutality and violence that are impossible to escape. This experience has only grown worse in…

New Haven has long been a city rife with inequities; its (non-Yale) residents currently experience a poverty rate of almost 26 percent, while its food insecurity rate is twice the national average.…