Since its inception, EARTH University has been committed to sustainability and the responsible use of natural resources. To support this commitment, the University established the Environmental Action Unit over 25 years ago to lead institutional environmental management through the generation of indicators, implementation of…

Every year at EARTH we celebrate a special day in our history, the 23rd of March, 1990, when our University opened its doors. This year, on our 33rd anniversary, we used the occasion to connect our community – the staff, faculty and student body – to talk about EARTH’s values, spirit, and mission. During the pandemic it was…

Since its inception, our University has been known for remaining true to its values and creating opportunities for everyone regardless of ethnicity, beliefs, or gender. Although agronomy has long been seen as a career exclusively for men, at EARTH, we…

On February 21, students, faculty, and guests gathered on our Guácimo Campus and online for the Drones Symposium: Platforms for Precision Agriculture and Forestry to discuss ideas for implementing new agricultural practices using drones. This amazing technological tool, in…

On January 16 we held the 2023 Academic Year Inaugural Event in which we welcomed 103 students (50 women and 53 men) from 28 countries. They are part of the Class of 2026 and are just beginning a…

EARTH Futures has joined the National Plan for Sustainable and Healthy Costa Rican Gastronomy and the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement to find solutions to the daily challenges facing farmers in Costa Rica and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger.

On March 31 of this year, we inaugurated the new cocoa processing laboratory and opened a new stage in the transformation and growth of a project that has inspired hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and visitors.

Lajanda Blake (’25, Jamaica) can turn words into poetry and has strong hands to plant and grow much of the food she and her family eat in their Jamaican village. Lajanda chose to study at EARTH to learn about the world of agriculture, community development, and sustainability.

At the age of nine, Adam Vorster (‘25, South Africa) became aware of the importance of agriculture for humanity’s food security. Back then, his family was not going through a stable economic situation. As a result, with his parents and sister, they began growing food for self-consumption. Adam had the ultimate epiphany from then on: agronomy would always be an essential part of his life.

Heilyn Calvo Vargas (Class of 2022, Costa Rica) decided she wanted to dedicate herself to science at a young age. Now, only 22 years old, she has achieved impressive results through extensive research that has positively impacted her community, Costa Rica, and EARTH. Her dreams are big, and her desire to fulfill them is even greater. To celebrate Women and Girls in Science Month, we share her story.

In partnership with the CRUSA Foundation, EARTH Futures worked together with different stakeholders from Hojancha, Nicoya, and Santa Cruz counties in Costa Rica to strengthen the management strategies of the Potrero Caimital Biological Corridor, a vital space for the conservation of regional biodiversity and water resources.

Yohannes Bimrew Simegn (Class of 2025, Ethiopia), a Mastercard Foundation scholarship recipient, is many things at once: an inventor, a dreamer, and a determined and curious person constantly seeking to innovate and improve the world. He grew up in Gojam, a rural community in Ethiopia with minimal modern technology, where agriculture is the primary source of income…

A 2007 donation from USAID’s American Hospitals and Schools Abroad (ASHA) program created EARTH’s dairy plant. It is a place that encourages experiential learning and produces the best quality dairy products for the university’s internal consumption.

As executive director of EARTH Futures, Emily Fintel Kaiser works each and every day studying and upscaling solutions that improve agricultural sustainability and life quality in rural areas. In this eye-opening interview, she explains how EARTH Futures is magnifying the University’s impact.

Our Class of 2021 recently returned from 15-week professional internships around the world. Fourth-year students Zakeyu Tawonga (Malawi), Ana Marian González (Nicaragua), and Usman Mohammed (Nigeria) feel inspired to get to work in their home countries after transformative experiences in Malawi, Brazil, and the USA.

Since 2007, the United Nations declared that every October 15 is a day to remember the essential role of rural women. The day honors women who farm, take care of their homes, and fight for their communities’ food security. Besides all this, they face daily challenges where they must do everything possible to achieve inclusion, eradicate poverty, and empower and educate themselves in a world that has often closed doors to them…

Ana Giselle Muñoz is an entrepreneur from Río Montaña, an isolated community where fertile land abounds. She and her family participate in an innovative project – led by EARTH Futures and the CRUSA Foundation – that increases agricultural efficiency, widens market access, and enhances life quality for corn farmers in Guanacaste, Costa Rica…

“Corn, as a basic ingredient, comes with many stories. The legend says that the Chorotega people come from maize kernels and that an indigenous woman running through the middle of the cornfield was pricked by a thorn, and drops of her blood fell on the crop, thus painting the maize in different colors.”