Christina and Alan EASTWOOD Graduate Scholarship in Land and Food Systems

Award descriptionA $6,000 scholarship is offered annually by Christina and Alan Eastwood for a graduate student in Land and Food Systems with an interest in sustainable food systems. Christina and Alan are now retired from careers as a medical technologist and an economist respectively, and have decades of experience in growing food organically for themselves and friends. They have long recognized the need for a more organic, less toxic, commercial food system. They hope this scholarship will encourage young people to pursue sustainable alternatives to conventional agriculture. The scholarship is made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems in consultation with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.