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University of Michigan’s Sustainable Food Systems Initiative present Food Literacy for All. The course is a community partnership and is structured as an evening lecture series, featuring different guest speakers each week to address diverse challenges and opportunities of both… Read more: Jennifer Blesh and Malik Yakini - Frances Moore Lappé | “Beyond Hunger: Toward Food”
“Beyond Hunger: Toward Food Democracy” Lappe begins exploring “thought traps” that block the pathway to solutions for so many: Primary is the false diagnosis that hunger results from scarcity that has kept the global focus fixed on production, using an… Read more: Frances Moore Lappé | “Beyond Hunger: Toward Food” - Ricardo Salvador | “A Healthy, Sustainable, Fair, Humane and Affordable Food System is Within Reach. How You Can Make It Happen”
A Healthy, Sustainable, Fair, Humane and Affordable Food System is Within Reach. How You Can Make It Happen. The U.S. food system has become the model replicated globally. Unfortunately, the system selectively serves those wealthy enough to command its benefits,… Read more: Ricardo Salvador | “A Healthy, Sustainable, Fair, Humane and Affordable Food System is Within Reach. How You Can Make It Happen” - Raj Patel | “The Long Green Revolution”
“The Long Green Revolution” Everything we understand today about the food system, from its influence on wage work to the nation-state, has its origins in the 15th century. By looking at these origins, the politics of feeding the world in… Read more: Raj Patel | “The Long Green Revolution” - Thaddeus Barsotti | “Building An Economically Sustainable Local Food System”
Over the past fifteen years my brothers and I grew our organic fresh vegetable farm from eighty to over eight hundred acres. Our CSA grew from delivering five hundred boxes per week to our customer’s home to delivering tens of… Read more: Thaddeus Barsotti | “Building An Economically Sustainable Local Food System” - Ari Weinzweig | “My Beliefs about Food and Cooking”
In this session of Food Literacy for All, Zingerman’s Co-founder and CEO, Ari Weinzweig will share a brief historical overview of beliefs about food and cooking in the US before and after Zingerman’s first opened it’s doors in March of… Read more: Ari Weinzweig | “My Beliefs about Food and Cooking” - Tim Crews | “Can a sustainable food system be economically viable and equitable and ecologically sound?”
“Can a sustainable food system be economically viable and equitable and ecologically sound?” Indigenous cultures around the world offer glimpses into how farming practices and local economies can operate within ecological constraints of particular regions. Dr. Crews will begin by… Read more: Tim Crews | “Can a sustainable food system be economically viable and equitable and ecologically sound?” - Saru Jayaraman | “Forked: A New Standard for American Dining”
March 14, 2017 With over 12 million workers, the restaurant industry is one of the largest and fastest growing segments of the US economy, but also the lowest paying. Restaurant workers in Michigan toil for a little over $3 an… Read more: Saru Jayaraman | “Forked: A New Standard for American Dining” - Monica White | “Freedom Farmers: Black Agricultural Cooperatives and Building Sustainable Communities”
March 21, 2017 Monica White examines the work of Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers of the late 1960s who fought for the right to participate in the food system as producers and to earn a living wage in the face… Read more: Monica White | “Freedom Farmers: Black Agricultural Cooperatives and Building Sustainable Communities” - Michael Twitty | “Culinary Justice: Defining a Theory of Gastronomic Sovereignty”
March 28, 2017 Food justice, social justice, environmental justice, food sovereignty—and entire language has developed around how we want to see and live in a better world where fairness and right action prevail. In an extension of these concepts, Michael… Read more: Michael Twitty | “Culinary Justice: Defining a Theory of Gastronomic Sovereignty” - Wayne Roberts | “Make America’s cities great again: How food policy can heal and overcome deep social divides”
April 4, 2017 One dominant element of the American spirit is positive-ism. How much time do social cause leaders spend promoting the positive, as distinct from opposing the negative? How much energy is invested in being for, not against, making… Read more: Wayne Roberts | “Make America’s cities great again: How food policy can heal and overcome deep social divides” - Kelly Brownell | “Creating Better Food Policy: The Need for Connection”
“Creating Better Food Policy: The Need for Connection” Food policy affects the lives of all the world’s inhabitants. The ability to feed the world’s population, the preservation of finite resources such as water and arable land, the protection of the… Read more: Kelly Brownell | “Creating Better Food Policy: The Need for Connection”
