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Judith
LaBelle |
Executive Summary |
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Judith
LaBelle |
Welcome and Challenge |
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Michel Nischan
Chef, Author |
A Brighter Food Future
Discusses the problems and potential of the current food
system from a chef’s perspective. |
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Mary
Hendrickson, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Food Circles Networking
Project
University of Missouri |
Can Consolidated Food Systems Achieve
Food Security
Analyses the structure of our globalized, industrialized food
system and the difficulties in creating food
security for all people. |
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Brian Halweil
Senior Researcher,
Worldwatch
Institute
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Farmland Defense: How the Food System Can Ward Off Future
Threats
Reviews vulnerabilities in the food production,
processing, and distribution systems, including those identified
through a Department of Homeland Security “war game.” |
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Peter Chalk,
Ph.D.
Associate Political
Scientist,
Rand Corporation |
Replace the Weak Links in the Food Chain
Examines specific factors in our livestock Production
and transportation systems that make the food industry highly
vulnerable to deliberate and accidental disruption. |
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Michael Hamm,
Ph.D.
C.S. Mott Chair of Sustainable Agriculture
Michigan State University |
The Food System: A Potential Future
Presents a framework for building sustainability into
the food system. |
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Craig Watson
Vice President, Quality Assurance and Agricultural
Sustainability,
SYSCO Corporation |
Emerging Corporate Strategies for Working with Small Scale
Producers and Making Their Products
Available Regionally
Presents SYSCO’s initiatives in supporting sustainable
agriculture and working with small scale producers to meet
regional and national demands for local food products. |
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Jim Slama
President, Sustain USA |
Family Farmed.org : Chicago and a Values-Driven
Food System
A discussion making the business case for Chicago’s
innovative plan to be the “Greenest City in America” including a
regional organic food system. |
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David Wilson
Farm Manager,
Duchy Home
Farm at Highgrove |
Sustainable Agriculture for Secure Food Production
Outlines the principal threats to sustainable agriculture and
food security |
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Fred
Kirschenmann, Ph.D.
Director, Leopold Center for Sustainable
Agriculture,
Iowa State University |
The Context of Food Security
Reviews the
challenges presented by the structure and organization of the
food system, with a challenge to develop ecological,
community-based, and economically viable food and farming
systems. |
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Systems Perspective: The papers in these sessions explore
the structure and trends in our existing food system, review the
vulnerabilities created by this structure, then offer a positive
vision for a food system that can be economically viable for
producers, environmentally sustainable, and accessible for all
communities and consumers. |
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Thomas Lyson,
Ph.D.
Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell
University |
Systems Perspective on Food Security
Examines of the
impacts created by transnational “food chain clusters” on the
farming sector, rural communities, and society in general. |
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Philip Rice,
Ph.D.
Project Manager, Sustainability Institute |
Commodity Systems are Where Human Economy Meets the Earth
Discusses the
commodity system, the stresses it places on the environment,
farmers and communities and suggests new ideas for the future. |
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David Wilson
Farm Manager,
Duchy Home Farm at Highgrove |
Sustainable Agriculture for Secure Food
Production And Duchy Home Farm at Highgrove
A European
perspective on the challenges facing small farmers, with
insights from the sustainable production and rare breed
enterprises at Prince Charles’ Duchy Farm. |
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Environmental/Public Health Perspective: The papers in
these sessions reviewed the connections between agricultural
policy and both environmental and human health impacts, with
particular reference to poor communities and communities of
color. |
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Kate Clancy,
Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists |
A New Perspective on Food Security:
Environmental/Public Health Perspective
Reviews animal
production practices, the nutritional importance of
phytochemicals, and obesity with emphasis on critical points of
intervention, potential actions, research needs, and
recommendations. |
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Keecha Harris,
Dr.PH.
President, Harris Associates |
Community Implications: Food Programs,
Policies, and Access Issues
Examines the relationships among agricultural, and food
and nutrition policy and their impacts on food access in poor
communities and communities of color. |
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Jeffrey Odefey,
Esq.
Staff Attorney, Waterkeeper Alliance |
Are Environmental and Public Health Impacts Separate or
Inherently Intertwined?
Outlines the environmental and public health impacts caused by
industrial agriculture and concentrated animal feeding
operations. |
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Nicolette Hahn Niman, Esq. |
Summary of Remarks
Provides an analysis of CAFO related violations of the
EPA’s clean water and air acts. |
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Policy Perspective: The papers in these sessions highlight
the impact of current agricultural policy on small and midsize
farmers, and identify specific policy initiatives that will
begin to level the playing field between corporate and
community-scale farming. |
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Daryll Ray,
Ph.D.
Director, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center (APAC) University
of Tennessee |
Targeting Policy Toward Each of Three Agricultures
Discusses potential policies that might strengthen “farming as a
livelihood strategy,” and to specifically address issues of
supply management, humanitarian services, civic agriculture, and
the “farmers in the middle." |
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Kathy Ozer
Executive Director, National Family Farm Coalition |
Necessary Policy Changes to Improve Food Security
Provides an overview of current U.S. farm commodity
policies that undermine family farmers by supporting pricing
structures that benefit corporate, industrial farms over
diversified producers. |
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