Food Security Practices in LEAF: The University of Sharjah's College of Medicine Experiment

The aim of this proposal is to share our experience in maintaining food security in a higher education institute. We hope to showcase our projects related to food security, and to collaborate with other institutes and organisations, thereby spreading the word and information to community members. This can result in community members to make their own compost from food leftovers that they have, grow their own vegetations, and teach others too!

We were able to implement such strategies through: having a deep freezer at the college of medicine where faculty and students put specific food leftovers in them; making composts out of them; using the compost as a natural fertiliser for the garden, greenhouse, and nethouse in the university; growing various vegetations in these places (such as onions, beetroot, cotton); growing and harvesting black wheat in the female medical dorms - the first of its kind to be grown in UAE soil; and being a member of MakeSoil.org, where community members can deposit their food leftovers to a designated place to make use of them in making a fertile soil.