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 […]
“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.
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
Thaddeus Barsotti | “Building An Economically Sustainable Local Food System” Read More »
“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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Jeremy Moghtader (Campus Farm Manager) discusses farming as a career in his talk, “Farmer as Career Choice in the 3rd Millennium” at the 3rd Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Jennifer Blesh, School of Natural Resources and Environment
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Joe Trumpey (Stamps School of Art and Design) discuss the intersection of art and farming in his talk,“Homesteading as Creative Practice” at the 2nd Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Lesli Hoey, Urban and Regional Planning
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Regina Baucom (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) discusses herbicide resistance in her tiny talk, “Herbicide Resistance in Weedy Plants: Current Status and Future Prospect at the 2nd Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Lee Taylor Penn, School of Public Policy
Catherine Badgley (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) gives a tiny talk, “Feeding the world with Sustainable Agriculture” about feeding the world with sustainable agriculture at the 2nd Annual Fast Food for Thought. Introduction by Ivette Perfecto, School for Environment and Sustainability.
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University of Michigan Food Sovereignty Conference: Local Struggles, Global Movement (May 28-29, 2015). Hosted by the University of Michigan Sustainable Food Systems Initiative http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainabl…
Jennifer Blesh | “The Ecology of Agrocoecology and the Agroecology of Food Sovereignty” Read More »
