Registration open for the UVM Food Systems Summit June 17-18!

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Registration is open for the 2014 UVM Food Systems Summit!

The UVM Food Systems Summit is an annual event drawing scholars, practitioners, and food systems leaders to engage in dialogue on the pressing food systems issues facing our world. The 2014 Summit will take place June 17-18, 2014, at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT.

The Summit is designed to optimize engagement between scholars and practitioners outside of academia. As such, the Summit is open to the public, the organizers are actively seeking participation from nonprofits and government, and all sessions include time for Q&A and engaged dialogue with the audience.

New year, new format
If you’ve been to the Summit in the past 2 years, you’ll recall that  multiple speakers were featured in an afternoon of short talks. This was a great way to highlight a wide range of people who are doing inspiring work to revolutionize the food system. What was heard from the audience is that people liked the variety of speakers, but wanted more opportunities to interact—to really dig into the difficult questions faced by scholars, activists, policy makers, farmers, and eaters of all walks of life. So this year the Summit is a day and a half gathering to maximize the opportunity for dialogue, networking, and engaging discussion on the pressing food systems issues facing our world.

 

Related events
The Breakthrough Leaders Professional Certificate Program for Sustainable Food Systems will take place at UVM June 15-20. Participation in the Summit is included as part of the program.

The 2014 UVM Food Systems Summit will immediately precede Collaboration and Innovation Across the Food System, the joint annual meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society (AFHVS) and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), on June 18-22 at the UVM campus. The UVM Food Systems Summit is an independently organized event and may be attended either alone or in combination with the AFHVS/ASFS conference. 

 

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