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Jacinta D. Hinson; Karen L. Alexander – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2025
Household food waste (HFW) presents a global sustainability challenge, significantly impacting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Particularly, HFW hampers the progress of SDG 2 (zero hunger) and SDG 12 (responsible consumption and production). With an estimated global annual food waste of 931 million tons, consumers are…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Food, Hunger, Family and Consumer Sciences
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Karen L. Franck; Janet Fox; Heather Sedges; Matthew Devereaux – Journal of Extension, 2024
Farmers face unique occupational and interpersonal stressors that increase risk for poor physical and mental health outcomes. To educate farmers and their families about these risks, one state's Family and Consumer Sciences faculty partnered with Agriculture and Natural Resources faculty with input from county agents to develop a series of online…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Education, Family (Sociological Unit), Health
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Eric Batts – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2024
Family and consumer sciences (FCS) educators are often tasked with teaching financial literacy to high school students. Many states have adopted financial literacy as a high school graduation course requirement. However, the need for financial literacy does not end in high school. Many parents could benefit from additional financial literacy…
Descriptors: Rural Population, Family (Sociological Unit), Financial Literacy, Parents
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Michele Walsh; Deborah John; Nicole Peritore; Andrea Morris; Carolyn Bird; Marion Ceraso; Sarah Eichberger; Rachel Novotny; Laura Stephenson; Suzanne Stluka; Roberta Riportella – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2018
A Health in All Policies approach engages cross-sector stakeholders to collaboratively improve systems that drive population health. We, the members of the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP)'s Health in All Policies Action Team, propose that adopting a Health in All Policies approach within the national Cooperative Extension…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Extension Education, Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Family and Consumer Sciences