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Film Screening and Q & A with Executive Producers of Al Alcance de la Mano
You can watch the event recording here. Event Date: March 5, 2021 from 5 – 6 pm In collaboration with the Michigan Theater, the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative is hosting a film screening and live Q&A with the Executive Producers of Al Alcance de la Mano on March 5, 2021. This film details the work
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SFSI Solidarity with the COVID-19 Farmworker Study
Carrots are picked near Arvin, Calif., Aug. 20, 2020. (Brian L. Frank/The New York Times) Date: December 23, 2020 The impacts of the COVID-19 virus have deepened disparities, worsened health outcomes, and sacrificed the safety of the farmworkers that grow our food in the US. Policies that have been put in place are not often
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Malik Yakini to Deliver MLK Keynote
Malik Yakini, a long-time partner of the Sustainable Food Systems Initiative (SFSI) and the co-founder and Executive Director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN), will be delivering one of the keynotes of the University of Michigan MLK Jr. Symposium. Yakini co-led the Food Literacy for All course during the 2017 and 2018 winter semesters and has hosted University of
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Unexpected Limitations to the Biological Control of the Coffee Leaf Miner
Authors: SFSI Faculty Affiliates Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer along with EEB students Zachary Hajian-Forooshani and Alexa White Published July 2020 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment ANN ARBOR— The most recent publication by the Perfectomeer lab of Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer details the affect of lizards and ants on the biological control of the coffee leaf miner in
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SFSI Intern Reflection: Navigating being a designer and farmer in a digital world
Author: Keesa V. Johnson Date: July 31, 2020 Currently, I’m at the midpoint of my first COVID 19 summer, working as an urban agriculture intern with D-Town Farm and Oakland Avenue Urban Farm in Detroit. Our online system is up and open for business! If you live in the area, visit Detroit often, and care
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Food Literacy for All Graduate Student Journalistic Articles
Date: July 30, 2020 As a part of the Food Literacy for all syllabus each year, students are prompted to get creative and hone in on their writing skills by producing a journalistic article. This year there were four women who stood out in their ability to produce eye-catching, relevant pieces. Teresa Dorado, Bella Mayorga,
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Vandermeer and Perfecto Labs hold annual educational day with local schoolchildren in Mexico
Ivette Perfecto (arms raised) and John Vandermeer play an ecological game with the children during Ecodía. Image credit this page: Jonno Morris. Date: June 24, 2020 Interviewees: Jonno Morris & Sara Donají González Herrera Jonno is a doctoral student in the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and EEB communications. Sara Donají González Herrera
SFSI Affiliates Discuss Food Security in the Time of COVID-19
Cindy Leung and Susan Aaronson, two SFSI affiliates, were interviewed back in May, 2020, on the impacts of the pandemic on food insecurity. Aaronson and Leung, in the School of Public Health, detail how these measures bring difficult new challenges for each of us, especially for vulnerable populations like the elderly, those with chronic illness
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Leah Penniman | “Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”
March 10, 2020 Some of our most cherished sustainable farming practices – from organic agriculture to the farm cooperative and the CSA – have roots in African wisdom. Yet, discrimination and violence against African-American farmers has led to our decline from 14 percent of all growers in 1920 to less than 2 percent today, with
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