flfa2017 – Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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 environment, and whether the food supply can be safe from food-borne pathogens and threats from […]

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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 the alternatives visible, viable and actionable? Food is made for actionism, as shown by the

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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 has begun to promote his notion of culinary justice—the idea that historically oppressed peoples have

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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 of racially, socially, and politically repressive conditions. Using a Collective Agency and Community Resilience theoretical

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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 hour and suffer from the worst sexual harassment of any industry in the state. Saru

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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 discussing the agriculture of Hopi people in Northern Arizona—its ecological resilience and current economic vulnerability.

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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 1982. Explore your beliefs. Learn how beliefs play out in our day-to-day experiences and how

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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 thousands per week across the West Coast. This journey forced us to learn the details

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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 the last century, and 21st century ways of re-imagining them, it becomes easier to see

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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, while perversely creating hunger, chronic disease, environmental damage and suffering for others. Inherently, such a

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