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Exploring the future of food, from farm to table, and table to farm, with a focus on how we can provide for our people today, and building a sustainable future.
Enacting interventions to achieve a circular economy through publications and advocacy - by learning from the efforts of our homegrown aloha ʻāina leaders, as well as our partners from around the globe.
Uplifting pono water resource management through a lens of aloha ʻāina and community-based restorative justice efforts.

Under the direction of Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer in his capacity as Dana Naone Hall Chair, the Pūnāwai Research Lab commits to elevating aloha ʻāina as an international best practice through research, policy, creative works, and publications.
A biannual summit which would provide a powerful opportunity to increase university community dialogue around aloha ʻāina and highlight the urgency of the changes we need to make for our islands and world, while also calling attention to the level of excellence of our (kākou) aloha ʻāina efforts.
To complete the projected outcomes of the Pōʻai ke Aloha ʻĀina project, the resources of the Chair position provide for graduate research assistants to document and support onsite aloha ʻāina projects conducted in partnership with various community organizations.