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The foundation of our school is food. From the campus design that feeds staff, students and their families, to the practical education that springs from having an entire vertically integrated food system on campus - food is a SMART subject. In our sustainable systems approach ingredients are going to be a constraint that keeps our operations local. Our aim is to produce food with few (or no) imported ingredients and in the short term our products will be local to each campus. In the long term our EIO units (see below) will enhance food security everywhere.

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## Climate & Conditions

Local ingredient availability is largely a matter of the local climate, the growing conditions. For SRGSMART our immediate future will deal with arid, desert, tropical and subtropical climates because we must design for a set of engineering conditions. From the southern United States to islands like the Philippines, the systems and biomes we work with on this wiki do not tolerate frequent freezing or an extended winter period. All of our methods can apply to places where there is winter due to cold weather greenhouse conditions matching subtropical climates, but that isn't what we are building. The solar thermal and irrigation systems we employ are robust be can not tolerate prolonged freezing. Our first campus in the Philippines is also designed to test integrated pest management based on the regional biota rather than consumable industrial products (pesticides, herbicides, etc.).

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## Production Problems

face a variety of problems: a lack of vertical integration, predatory buyers, feast or famine periods, spoilage, lack of appropriate technology, sustainability, lack of labor-saving methods, poor water supply, weather and more. Our campus experimental farms are platforms for testing solutions appropriate to the developing world. At the production stage some produce could and should be sold fresh if possible. Local fresh markets are something to be encouraged, but this doesn't often allow the farmer to benefit form the full potential value of the produce. Producing goods for distribution, preferably with a long shelf-life, is a priority for our program. Our prototype campus layout is designed to make complete vertical integration efficient and effective. Much of this depends on process / product design and students will be able to test their ideas from local farm to local table.

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## Exovivaria Input / Output (EIO) Units

EIOs are a focus in our agronomy and biome engineering program components. A vivarium is an enclosure for keeping animals and / or plants for observation or research. We will test components and eventual whole systems for vivaria that are isolated from ambient conditions except in terms of input / output required. This makes our systems "exo" vivaria - isolated from the terrestrial environment. Currently planned systems will not be atmospherically sealed but can eliminate particulate and microbial contamination. Thermal management will also be passive, so biomes unable to tolerate sub-tropical temperatures and up will not be viable in our systems. Measurement of I/O will also be a priority with system output intended for harvest being evaluated as a batch when "seals are broken". Systems will be optimized for reusability, with minimal maintenance and long service lifecycles. We will be serving our produce for campus meals. In the context of our first campus we anticipate being able to measure gas and vapor exchange, collecting enough data to make our systems effective research analogs for space science applications. Developing appropriate technology that can be economically deployed in the developing world is also a program priority.

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**Central Luzon State University (CLSU) Scholars Program:** CLSU is one of the leading institutes for agronomy, notably the agricultural sciences, in southeast Asia. Our first campus will be located near their main campus and our programs will include cooperative projects open to visiting scholars. Our planning includes campus accommodations for hosting small teams of scholars and / or university students who collaborate with us.

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For a general overview of food science here is a Wikipedia link. Our approach is vertically integrated from local farm to local table, so this is the framework we operate in - the goal is to feed humanity sustainably. The following pages, distributed through the various other categories of this wiki, are food science related:

* Agronomy (Status: Early Dev)
* Foodplus (Status: Early Dev)
* Philippines Ingredients (Stauts: Early Dev)

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## Related Topics

* Campus Community Centers
* Compensation Equity
* **Food Science**
* Homesteading
* Hyperlocal Economics
* Social Business Principles
* Sunhaven Earth
* National Jurisdictions
* Nonprofit Operations
* Open Source Universe
* Wikipedia LAN

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