{"id":47203,"date":"2016-06-23T08:16:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=47203"},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:47:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:47:53","slug":"albie-miles-sustainable-agriculture-research-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/23\/albie-miles-sustainable-agriculture-research-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"Albie Miles\u2019 sustainable agriculture research honored"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_47219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47219\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/west-oahu-rice-fields.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"531\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/west-oahu-rice-fields.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/west-oahu-rice-fields-260x223.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traditional terrace production of heirloom rice in the upland Philippines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46673\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/uhwo-miles-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/uhwo-miles-a.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/uhwo-miles-a-189x260.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albie Miles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Assistant Professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/academics\/degrees-and-certificates\/bachelor-of-applied-sciences\/food-systems\/\">Sustainable Community Food System<\/a>s <strong>Albie Miles<\/strong> and colleagues were honored with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/atlas\/about\">Elsevier Atlas award<\/a> for their article &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1462901115300812\">Investing in the transition to sustainable agriculture<\/a>&rdquo; published in the <em>Journal of Environmental Science and Policy<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>In his research for the article, Miles found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Much United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) research and extension funding is unrelated to sustainable agriculture.<\/li>\n<li>Many projects are focused on enhancing yields of crops or animal products. <\/li>\n<li>Fewer funds support substituting less damaging inputs into farming practices.<\/li>\n<li>Ecological agriculture is crucial but lacked funding.<\/li>\n<li>More public funds are needed for agroecology and related socioeconomic supports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elsevier, publisher of more than 1,800 journals about information solutions for science, health, and technology professionals, awards the Elsevier Atlas to one article every month featuring research that may significantly impact the lives of people around the world. The Elsevier Atlas award is presented by the publisher in order to bring wider attention to the awardee&#8217;s research and help ensure its successful implementation.<\/p>\n<h2>More on Albie Miles<\/h2>\n<p>Miles&#8217; natural science research explores the synergies between farming system biodiversity and the provisioning of globally important ecosystem services from agriculture. His social science research explores the socio-economic and political obstacles to a more ecologically sustainable and socially equitable food system. Miles teaches a wide range of courses on the topics of agroecology and sustainable food systems, and developed the undergraduate concentration in sustainable community food systems at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/ekamakanihou\/?p=4110\">Miles&#8217; research and award<\/a> at the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> website.<\/p>\n<h2><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>&#8217;s sustainable community food system program<\/h2>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rVIJCa04BWo?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>New sustainable community food systems degree program is training leaders for the green collar economy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/06\/22\/garden-of-wisdom-growing-sustainable-food-expertise-in-west-oahu\/\">Learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Julie Funasaki Yuen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>&#8217;s Albie Miles and colleagues are honored with the Elsevier Atlas award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[906,598,59],"class_list":["post-47203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-e-kamakani-hou","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47203"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109520,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47203\/revisions\/109520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}