Mark Hunter (School for Environment and Sustainability) gives a talk titled “Monarch Butterflies, Herbicides, and our Food System” at the 4th Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Meha Jain, School of Environment and Sustainability
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“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.
“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 industrial-chemical model of farming. She argues that this model itself so concentrates power and undermines
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Meha Jain (School of Natural Resources and Environment, Sustainable Food Systems) discusses using satellites to inform agricultural decisions in India in her talk, “Satellites for Sustainable Agriculture” at the 3rd Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Joe Trumpey, Stamps School of Art and Design, Natural Resources and Environment
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Josh Newell (School of Natural Resources and Environment) discusses scaling up urban agriculture in his talk, “How Will Scaling-up Urban Agriculture Impact Food, Energy, & Water Dynamics?” at the 3rd Annual Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan. Introduction by Alicia Alvarez, Michigan Law School
Lilly Fink Shapiro introduces the 2nd Annual Fast Food for Thought.Tom Princen (School of Natural Resources and Environment) shares hypotheses for “Why Food, Why Now?”
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