Building Our Region's Food System
This conference takes on the 12-state Northeast region from Maine to West Virginia. By taking a regional approach, we can grow our thinking and our work to develop a truly sustainable and resilient food system. We can build upon our "thousand points of local" to achieve optimal scale, location, variety and supply for all communities and all supply chain participants.
Come prepared to roll up your sleeves. We'll offer in-depth working sessions, provocative debates and hands-on exercises. We'll tackle important questions about regional food systems and how we can get there.
We'll draw upon the local and regional exciting efforts both underway and emerging, in our region and nationally, including alternative supply chain networks, research projects, infrastructure initiatives and policy advocacy.
Background Reading
We'll have more background reading for our 2011 event. Stay tuned!
Come prepared to roll up your sleeves. We'll offer in-depth working sessions, provocative debates and hands-on exercises. We'll tackle important questions about regional food systems and how we can get there.
We'll draw upon the local and regional exciting efforts both underway and emerging, in our region and nationally, including alternative supply chain networks, research projects, infrastructure initiatives and policy advocacy.
Background Reading
- It Takes a Region: Exploring a Regional Food Systems Approach is NESAWG's working paper. Please read it!
- Short on time, the article, Is Local Enough? Some Arguments for Regional Food Systems by Kate Clancy and Kathy Ruhf in Choices Magazine gives you an abbreviated version of the longer paper.
We'll have more background reading for our 2011 event. Stay tuned!
