[ShareTompkins] Fwd: Empowered Food Systems: Lessons from Vermont (Mon. 4-23-12, 1pm, Room 160 Mann Library)

[A Wilson]

> Collaborative Engagement and Empowered Food Systems:
> Lessons from Vermont
> Mon. April 23, 2012, 1-2:30 pm
> Mann Library Seminar Room 160, Cornell University
> Free and Open to the Public
>
> Chris Koliba and Erica Campbell will be visiting Ithaca to talk  
> about their work around collaborative engagement in support of  
> healthy food systems in Vermont, empowering and connecting  
> stakeholders from farm to plate. This event is free and open to the  
> public -please join us!
>
> Koliba will describe some innovative "transdisciplinary" approaches  
> being explored at the University of Vermont (UVM). Less concerned  
> with a focus on a particular discipline,transdisciplinarity aims  
> instead for a research approach that is respectful of and actively  
> engaged with the real world and its needs. In May of 2010 a "Food  
> Systems Spire" was chosen as one of UVM's Transdisciplinary Research  
> Initiatives. He is Co-Director of the Master of Public  
> Administration Degree Program and an Assistant Professor in the  
> Community Development and Applied Economics Department at University  
> of Vermont (UVM).
>
> Campbell, director of the Vermont Farm to Plate Network, will talk  
> about her work with this emerging multi-stakeholder food systems  
> “governance network”. These collaborative networks offer unique  
> opportunities for empowering communities and food systems.  
> Decentralized and responsive to local needs, they can also support  
> innovation, equity and resilience across broad regions.
>
> Sponsored by Mann Library, the Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Group  
> (FANG) and New World Agriculture and Ecology Group (NWAEG). Funding  
> provided by GPSA-FC.
>
> More info: http://bit.ly/collab-food
> Like us on Facebook!: http://www.facebook.com/events/221204484652384/
>
> Getting there:
> -Cornell interactive map: http://www.cornell.edu/maps/interactive.cfm
> -Campus parking map: http://www.transportation.cornell.edu/tms/cms/parking/commuting/walkers/upload/VisitorParkingMap-11.pdf
> -Parking meters: http://www.transportation.cornell.edu/tms/cms/parking/campusparking/visitors/metered.cfm
> -TCAT Bus Trip Planner: http://tcat.nextinsight.com/
>
> Apologies for cross-posting!

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