PROGRAMMING AREAS
Balanced Use of Natural Resources
The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
The Pennsylvania State University
7 Armsby Building, University Park PA 16802-5602
814/863-4656(phone); 814/863-0586(fax)
Please send questions and comments to:
nercrd@psu.edu
Enhancing Local and Regional Food Systems:
Exploring the Research, What Works, and What We Need to Learn
May 19-20, 2009
Hudson Valley Resort, Kerhonkson, NY
The goals of this workshop are threefold: 1) to provide an extensive opportunity for shared-learning and exploration related to the scientific research base on a wide range of local foods and local food system development strategies and activities-what works, what does not, and what more we need to know; 2) to provide networking opportunities for researchers, Extension professionals, and others working to enhance local and regional food systems, and 3) to identify emerging information, program, and research priorities and develop a set of options for addressing these issues across the region. [Speaker Bios]
| Presentations |
| Tuesday, May 19 | |
| 8:00-9:00 |
Registration |
9:00-9:30 |
Welcome and Introductions -- Setting the Stage |
9:30-10:15 |
Kate Clancy, Food Systems Consultant and Senior Fellow, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, University of Minnesota, What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Local and Regional Food Systems? [slide show] [video] |
10:15-10:30 |
Break |
10:30-11:15 |
Clare Hinrichs, Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, Penn State University, What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know about the Community Impacts of Local and Regional Foods? [slide show] [video] |
11:15-12:00 |
Dawn Thilmany, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, Consumers of Local Foods: Civic Minded or Seeking Assurances? [slide show] [video] |
12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
1:00-1:45 |
Mike Hamm, C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Michigan State University, Farm to School Programming: Opportunities, Barriers and Lessons Learned. [slide show] [video] |
1:45-3:00 |
Facilitated Panel Discussion [video] |
| Duncan Hilchey, consultant with New Leaf Associates Publishing and Consulting in Ithaca, New York, Applied Research Needs in Regional Food Systems. [slide show] | |
| Kathy Ruhf, coordinator of the Northeast Sustainable Ag Working Group (NESAWG) | |
| Jennifer Wilkins, Senior Extension Associate, Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University; director of the Cornell Farm to School Program | |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break |
| 3:15-4:00 | Research Roundtables I |
| 4:00-4:45 | Research Roundtables II |
| 4:45-6:00 | Poster Sessions/Refreshments |
| 6:30-8:00 | Dinner and Presentation |
| Jerry Cosgrove, Deputy Commissioner, New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets | |
| Wednesday, May 20 | |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:15 | Rich Pirog, Associate Director of the Leopold Center at Iowa State University, Building Networks That Work: Iowa's Network for Food and Agriculture Working Groups. [slide show] [video] |
| 9:15-9:30 | Identify Small Group Topics |
| 9:30-10:45 | Needs Identification – small group breakouts to identify: research, data, information, partnership and Extension program needs |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Small Group Reports |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00-1:45 | Making it Happen – large group discussion |
| 1:45-3:00 | Developing an Action Agenda |
| 3:00-3:30 | Wrap up/adjourn |
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