Join NAMA at the 13th Annual Community Food Coalition Conference: From Commodity to Community in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Community Food Security Coalition’s annual conference is back better than ever. Join 750 of your colleagues for the nation’s primary food systems networking and educational event in Des Moines.
Join NAMA at the 13th Annual Community Food Coalition Conference: From Commodity to Community in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Community Food Security Coalition’s annual conference is back better than ever. Join 750 of your colleagues for the nation’s primary food systems networking and educational event in Des Moines.
The conference will include plenaries on building networks for food system change, labor and immigration
policy, and strategies for change of the industrial food system. Also featured will be 50 workshops, a food film festival, six field trips, the 1st annual Food Sovereignty Prize Award presentation, business meetings and structured networking time, lunch and learns, and an exhibit hall. Workshops will focus on farm to cafeteria, food access in rural and urban communities, food politics and projects in the Heartland, labor and immigration in community food systems, international food security, local foods, food access in underserved communities, and much more.
Please join us on a panel that brings farmers and fishermen together on Sunday, October 11 @ 11:15:
Economic Recovery through Local Markets for Fishermen and Farmers
Andrianna Natsoulas, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
Kim Libby, Fisherman’s Wife, Port Clyde, Maine
John Kinsman, Family Farm Defenders
Moderator: Lisa Griffith, National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC)
Small-scale family farmers and fishermen face similar obstacles and have developed similar solutions to enhance their communities and environments through policy and market transformations that lead to food sovereignty. Workshop participants will outline the need for alternative food markets, identify necessary changes and obstacles to getting there; map out a plan for overcoming the obstacles and, articulate their passion for local food economies through words and by tasting food provided by fishermen and farmers.
For more information about the conference, visit their website.