Community Food Security Conference Announcement
Hugh Joseph (hjoseph@emerald.tufts.edu)
Thu, 05 Aug 1999 21:04:02 -0400 (EDT)
> Conference Announcement:
> To receive a conference brochure, contact: Community Food Security
> Coalition, 310-822-5410, asfisher@aol.com
>
> Community Food Security Coalition Annual Conference: Toward a Democratic and
> Just Food System
> October 14-17, Chicago, IL
>
> The Community Food Security Coalition returns to Chicago for its annual
> conference five years after its founding. Come Thursday for the Follow the
> Food Chain field trips, with stops at highlights of Chicago's food system,
> as well as to gain some practical skills at the afternoon's short courses.
> Stay Friday for USDA's National Summit on Community Food Security, where
> hundreds of activists will unite to make comprehensive commitments to cut
> American hunger in half by the year 2015. On Saturday and Sunday, our
> conference continues, packed with exciting activities including a nationally
> prominent keynote speaker, sixteen educational workshops, a main plenary on
> the global food system, a reception with homegrown food and Chicago blues,
> and our annual membership meeting.
>
> Workshop Topics Include:
> • Are We Partners Yet? A Roundtable Discussion of Coalition and USDA
> Efforts to Achieve Food Security
> • Building a National Community Food Security Policy Agenda
> • Cultivating Grassroots Growth of the Community Food Security Movement
> • Finding Common Ground between Anti-hunger and CFS Advocates
> • Food Banking for Self-Sufficiency and a Sustainable Food System
> • Getting the Word Out: Marketing Your Project
> • Grow It/Buy it/Store It: Preserving the Bounty Simply and Cheaply
> • Healthy Farms, Healthy Kids: Buying From Local Farmers to Improve the
> Quality of School meals
> • Inner-city Supermarket Development: New Initiatives and Partnerships
> • Successful Urban Agriculture Models: Comparisons and Future Directions
> • The Soul of Agriculture
> • Urban Harvest: Intensive Growing on Abandoned Lots and Urban Wild Plants
> • What does Biotechnology hold for Community Food Systems?
> • What is Community Food Security? Defining Concept and Practice.
>
> The main plenary will be:
> Regaining Control: Community Food Security Strategies in a Global Food System
>
> An increasingly corporate and global food system is harmful to the nation's
> family farmers, the environment, the integrity of communties, and the health
> of consumers. How can we regain control over the food system before it's too
> late? Are we doing enough by developing model projects as alternatives to the
> dominant food system? Or are we just fiddling while Rome is burning? Should
> we develop a more explicitly anti-corporate agenda?
>
> Moderator: Molly Anderson, Tufts University
> Speakers: Anuradha Mittal, Food First
> Bill Heffernan, University of Missouri
> Jules Pretty, University of Essex
> Debbie Field, Foodshare
>
> Short course topics:
> How to Develop a Business plan for Your Food Enterprise
> Assessing your community's food system
> Organizing on Local Food Policy
>
>
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