Center for Global Food Security

Welcome to the Purdue Center for Global Food Security

In the dawn of the 21st century, we have entered a new era in global food security concerns. The world population has risen to over six billion and is expected to grow to nine billion by the year 2050. Achieving food security for so many people has only become more difficult in recent years due to a combination of interconnected scientific, economic, social, political, and environmental factors. Purdue's Center for Global Food Security (PCGFS) is taking up these challenges, helping to ensure that we have enough food, feed and fuel for the 21st century and beyond.

PCGFS Goals

Provide Global Leadership Create Global Public Good Build Human and Institutional Capacity Strengthen and Grow Partnerships Develop Entrepreneurial Capacity

Provide Global Leadership

The center works to expand the community of individuals who are invested in advancing the cause of global food security through a revitalized agricultural research program to build relationships grounded in mutual trust and common goals, and connect knowledge to action.

Create Global Public Good

We promote an integrated research agenda that is flexible and evolving, interconnecting with new discoveries, emerging priorities, and the creative insights and collaborative interests of our faculty, students, and partners to generate new knowledge, products, and services.

Build Human and Institutional Capacity

Building on the long history of Purdue University in global engagement in agriculture, engineering, the arts, and sciences, the Center will continue this tradition and support human capacity building and institutional strengthening of programs. We will encourage and enable effective communication and access of creative science, technology, and innovation to advance the cause of purpose-driven research for the global community.

Strengthen and Grow Partnerships

Our goal of advancing an integrative systems-approach to addressing the growing challenges of global food security relies on a global learning community that shares the task of designing solutions for addressing problems. We hope to bring together the best of the vision and science that resides at our university with those at partner organizations for more effective synergy.

Develop Entrepreneurial Capacity

Purdue's Discovery Park is changing how a 21st century university translates research into viable commercial products. PCGFS plans to directly engage our researchers and partners in practical entrepreneurship to transform innovations arising from our joint efforts into commercial enterprises..

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