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This symposium will focus on feeding ourselves: the business, science and human aspects of the food systems – adapting how we produce, process, package, and transport our food to reduce and reverse negative impacts to improve air quality, water quality and quantity, soil health, and social equity. We aim to focus on solutions on how we can adapt our human networks to reduce and reverse trends of environmental degradation, economic instability and social disparities. The symposiim will integrate business, science, and humanities to highlight the interconnectedness of our human, natural and built systems.
We will bring together academics, corporations, environmentalists, planners, engineers, local, state and federal officials, architects, planners, and farmers. We welcome submission of full panels and individuals interested in moderating a session.
Through this symposium we seek to explore the barriers, opportunities, and highlight successes and innovation in creating a more resilient and adaptive world. Issues include but not limited to:
• Water quality and quantity
• Waste – reduce and recycle
• Economics of food systems
• Psychology of marketing & consumption
• Soil health
• Availability of tillable land
• Greenhouse Gases
• Urban food deserts
• Labor issues
• Know your farmer know your food
• The role of big business
• Innovations in packaging
• Food safety
• Food systems in a volatile world
Submit name, affiliation, contact info & 500 word abstract.
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