Kudos to UCSC graduate student Kevin Cody for his recent grant award from the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS). His proposal? To “assess the potential to ‘scale-up’ innovations in sustainable agriculture (SA) through a case study of the organization, Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture (MESA).” Kevin has already begun to crisscross the U.S. interviewing MESA host farms and stewards; he’ll then head down to Latin America to meet with alumni running their own community-based projects “to determine the key variables that influence the diffusion of SA innovations.”