Dear Santa Barbara County Workshop
Attendees,
We are excited that you will be participating in
the workshop at UCSB: "Localizing agrifood systems-research,
action and policy", hosted by the Santa Barbara
County Agrifood Systems research group at UCSB, directed by David
Cleveland.
Title: Workshop: Localizing Santa
Barbara County agrifood systems-research, action and
policy.
Date: Friday, May 20, 12pm -
6:30pm
Saturday, May 21, 8am - 8:00pm.
Location:
McCune Workshop Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB.
Sponsored by UCSB's Academic Senate
Sustainability Champion Program, Environmental Studies Program, and
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
This workshop will bring together participants in
the SB County agrifood system (farmers, policy makers, distributors,
students, researchers, and agriculture and food advocates) to begin
moving toward a future for Santa Barbara County and our region that is
locally oriented, environmentally sound, socially responsible and
economically viable.
ALL WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS MUST BE
PREREGISTERED!
1.
Please look at the WORKSHOP SCHEDULE that is
attached.
2.
Please take less than a minute to FILL OUT THIS RSVP
SURVEY so we can make sure we have diverse participants in
each session and enough good food to feed participants.
Session and Meal Attendance Questionnaire : http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6HYFD3L
3.
SEND US 10 WORDS that describe your involvement
in the SB County agrifood system for your name tag word cloud on the
survey above.
4.
More information will be sent to all participants closer to
the conference. It will also be posted on the conference
website: http://es.ucsb.edu/esconf
5.
If you have posters of the research or programs you are
working on that support localizing the SBC agrifood system, please let
us know. We will select the most appropriate ones for display during
the workshop.
6.
Please call Corie Radka at (714) 600-6706 with comments,
question, or suggestions, or email sbc.agrifoodworkshop@gmail.com
See the attached document for the Workshop
Schedule
We aimed to cater to both farmers and people in
the normal workday so both entities can be present for all
discussions. We hope those working on Friday could make it a priority
to take a half day and come get a free local and organic lunch before
we kick off the first session of the workshop.
The workshop will be focused on produce.
Our decision to focus the workshop on produce (fruits and vegetables)
is based on the following : 1) fruits and vegetables dominate SBC
agriculture economically, with 82% of total value in 2009; 2) produce
accounts for most of the prime farmland, irrigation and other
production inputs; 3) produce dominates direct sales of agricultural
products in SBC (e.g. 79% of total agricultural sales at Santa Barbara
Certified Farmers Markets); and 4) produce contains nutrients widely
believed to be lacking in US diets (while many SBC residents have low
nutritional status and food security).
Each session panel will be followed by breakout
sessions in which all workshop attendees will participate. The
goal of these breakout sessions is build on the panel discussions to
create an agenda for the research, actions and policies needed to
localize the SBC AFS
After the workshop the SBC AFS research group
will edit and distribute the results with help from workshop
attendees. Action items identified at this workshop that need
organization to initiate will be initiated by a student group in the
summer. Depending on the workshop results, this could mean organizing
meetings, keeping people informed, or initiating further
research.
Looking forward to seeing you on May
20-21,
David Cleveland, Professor
Corie Radka, Research Assistant
Environmental Studies Program, UCSB
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David Cleveland, Professor
Corie Radka, Research Assistant
Environmental Studies Program 4160
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4160, USA
Santa Barbara Agrifood System Workshop
May 20-21, 2011