Globe 4970: Dean's Global Agriculture and Food Leadership Program

Dean's Global Agriculture and Food Leadership Program to Rome - Summer 2025

This integrated production and policy program will allow students to gain valuable knowledge, skills, and abilities with respect to global agricultural production, resources, and food issues. Students will combine coursework conducted at ISU and on-site work with professional teams in Rome to explore real-world projects focused on global food and agriculture issues. Students will work with United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) professionals. Students will present their findings to FAO at the end of the program. Students will, at the end of the program, enhance their thinking while working in a high-functioning team environment to evaluate complex issues associated with global agriculture and food issues like biodiversity, foreign food aid, food security, food safety, environmental/resource conservation, global economy and the role of the US and the UN in these issues.

Program Director(s): 

Carmen Bain

Shelley Taylor

Sandy Andrews

Shawn F. Dorius

GLOBE 4950 spring course is offered Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:10-5:00 pm. All students must pass this course to participate in the GLOBE 4970 course for the summer.

For a quick view of life in Rome and working at the College of Design campus, see here:

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