The Clifford J. Benson Center for Community Partnerships fosters campus-community collaborations to address needs in small towns. To work toward more vibrant and equitable rural communities.

The Stevens County Food Assessment was a year-long effort to evaluate food systems and food security in Stevens County, MN.

2-4 students engaged in the Center’s work in varying ways.

Although the majority of food is produced in sparsely populated rural areas, food insecurity in these same areas is pervasive, likely increasing, and understudied. We propose a five-county regional ...