Nine Minnesota high school students, from six different high schools, shared their ideas for ending hunger at the World Food Prize’s Global Youth Institute in Des Moines, Iowa, October 19-21.  

Land O’Lakes a sponsor

The students, who joined 200 of their peers from around the world, were finalists at the Minnesota Youth Institute competition... Read more

In June, Katie Atkins, ’19, who is majoring in management information systems and finance, was one of four U of M students to travel to South Africa and Tanzania to learn more about hunger, agriculture, and sustainability through the Land O’Lakes’ Global Food Challenge Emerging Leaders program.

Atkins gained important new perspectives on her trip: “My morning cup of coffee is now met... Read more

Audrey Sebastian, ’19, a mechanical engineering major, traveled to South Africa and Tanzania in June with the Land O’Lakes’ Global Food Challenge Emerging Leaders program to learn more about hunger, agriculture, and sustainability. During the year-long program, program participants work with Land O’Lakes to find new ways to feed the world using fewer resources.

In Tanzania, Sebastian... Read more

The Minnesota Youth Institute World Food Prize competition drew 150 Minnesota high school students to the U’s St. Paul campus on May 15. Land O’Lakes helps to sponsor the competition. Five times as many students as in the past were able to attend this year’s event, according to Mohamed Yakub, Minnesota Youth Institute coordinator.

The competition

Competing... Read more

Kenta Nakatsuka, a Land O’Lakes Scholarship recipient, grew up helping his parents cultivate vegetables and rice. But his interest in food really developed in the kitchen. “I love eating,” he says. “I would sit beside my mother and cut vegetables and learn how to make things.”

At first, Nakatsuka, who grew up in in Okayama, Japan, wanted to become a chef, but instead turned to science... Read more

Land O’Lakes Scholar Anna Aukes has fond childhood memories of selling her family’s produce at the farmer’s market in Blue Earth, Minnesota. “It was me, my sister, and my two neighbors,” she recalls. “We had our own little business.” Although she enjoyed helping grow the food she sold, agriculture wasn’t initially her career plan. “I wanted to be an artist, then I wanted to work for NASA, and... Read more

Emerging Leaders from the University of Minnesota: front row L-R: Audrey Sebastian, Rachel Anderson  back row L-R: Peri Warren, Katie Atkins

Four exceptional U of M sophomores are among the recently selected Global Food Challenge Emerging Leaders for 2016-2017. Rachel Anderson, Katie Atkins, Audrey Sebastian, and Peri Warren are part of Land O’Lakes’ efforts to find... Read more