Campaign Goal: $236.5 Million
Feeding people at home and around the globe, protecting animal habitat and agricultural lands, ensuring sustainable economies, and preserving the natural beauty of the terrain are big challenges for Washington and for the world. As the state’s land-grant institution, Washington State University is committed to developing solutions to these complicated realities.
Through WSU’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS) and WSU Extension, a partnership between producers, professors, and consumers has been growing vibrantly for more than century. Washington’s agricultural enterprise—the state’s largest employer—is among the largest and most diverse in the United States and accounts for one-fifth of Washington’s annual gross product.
The faculty, researchers, extension staff, and students of CAHNRS and WSU Extension apply scientific excellence to the fundamental issues confronting agricultural food systems, and the human and design sciences. Innovations in laboratories lead to increased sustainability and profitability for our farmers, ranchers, and urban neighborhoods. Our Extension agents bring information and research to communities across Washington. This close relationship ensures that our research is directed at relevant, timely, real-world applications.
Some of the biggest questions facing society’s future are also extraordinarily complex, such as how to build a modern food system that tis productive, competitive, and sustainable; or how to ensure the health and well-being of children, families, and communities. Through the Campaign for Washington State University, CAHNRS and WSU Extension will play a major roles in defining answers to these complex issues through truly big ideas—feeding the world, powering the planet, and enriching the environment and home.
CAHNRS and WSU Extension seeks $236.5 million through the Campaign for WSU to establish Washington as a global market for profitable, cutting-edge, environmentally friendly agricultural and food systems. Join us to foster the state’s new leadership in a bioeconomy, to develop sustainable food systems, to improve and sustain natural and urban environments, and to strengthen the educational resources for the next generation of leaders. The result will be a healthier economy, a healthier environment, and a healthier and more sustainable tomorrow for our state and the world.
