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Just a reminder that the “Farming the City: Changing the Way We Think about Food, Hunger and Health” conference is happening this Friday and Saturday.
The Saturday sessions are close to filling up (the Friday tours are already full), so we encourage you to register if you’re planning on attending and haven’t already done so.
See you Friday and Saturday!
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The speech below was delivered as part of a workshop titled “Setting the Course: The College Food Movement”. The two people referred to below are Ashwini Jaisingh, a a junior at Georgetown University and Domestic Fair Trade Coordinator for USFT (United Students for Fair Trade); and Tim Galarneau, Coordinator of the University of California Sustainable Food Coalition.
Hi, I’m Rowan. The project I want to talk about is in some ways an extension of what Tim and Ashwini are doing. They are already collaborating across campuses and issues and finding that their efforts are exponentially more effective because of this collaboration.
There are, however, many schools that are undertaking these issues in isolation, isolation from other schools and also issues in isolation from each other on a single campus. Now, don’t get me wrong, amazing things have been accomplished in this fashion.
In fact, in the back you can see a list of 168 schools that have programs that involve purchasing local foods, organic foods, fair trade foods, holding courses on food issues and even having student farms. But think, if this much as been done without the help of shared information and amplified efforts, what is possible with this collaboration?
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Here’s two articles discussing the “Food Policy: Addressing Social Justice in the Sustainable and Local Food Movements” panel discussion at Yale University, at which The Food Project presented:
YSFP sustains speaker series - from the Yale Daily News
Equal opportunity organic - from Grist
