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University Lectures and Seminars on Sustainable Food Systems
Engaging members of the campus and broader community in dialogues about sustainable food systems is a key SEED Wayne goal.
In Spring 2013, as part of the class, Cities and Food (UP 5430), we're offering a series of seminars featuring local advocates. This series is entitled: Building a Sustainable Food System in Detroit. This is the fifth year in which this seminar series has been offered.
View the 2012 seminar by Malik Yakini, Executive Director of Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, on Food, 'Race,' and Justice.
For previous lectures, please scroll down
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Jerry Kaufman, Emeritus Professor of Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Community and Regional Food System Planning
Wednesday, August 24, 2011, 5:30 pm, Rm. 3339 Faculty Administration Building
Thursday, August 25, 3 pm, Eastern Market Corporation Conference Room
Professor Kaufman's lectures are sponsored by SEED Wayne, WSU's Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the Detroit Food Policy Council.
Right: Jerry Kaufman and Judith Zukerman Kaufman visit St. Anne's Church in southwest Detroit during their visit to the city.
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Eric Toensmeier
Toensmeier is Manager of Tierra de Oportunidades at Nuestras Raices, Holyoke, MA, and award-winning author of author of Perennial Vegetables and co-author of Edible Forest Gardens.
February 2, 2010, 5:30 PM, Community Room, Undergraduate Library, 3rd Floor.
Nuestra Raices is a community-based organization that works to address many of the challenges faced by the low-income, Puerto Rican community in Holyoke, MA, through an urban farm and numerous food businesses, and by fostering youth and women’s leadership, cultural events and festivals, and environmental justice and health coalitions. The organization recently started a training program for youth to install solar hot water systemsNuestras Raices works to address many of the challenges faced by the low-income, Puerto Rican community in Holyoke, MA, through an urban farm and numerous food businesses, and by fostering youth and women’s leadership, cultural events and festivals, and environmental justice and health coalitions. The organization recently started a training program for youth to install solar hot water systems.
This lecture is sponsored by SEED Wayne and Earth Works Urban Farm of the Capuchin Soup Kitchen.
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Cecilia Rocha, Ph. D.
Associate Professor of Nutrition Policy, Ryerson University
Tuesday, April 21, 5:30 to 7 PM; Spencer Partrich Auditorium, WSU Law School
“Healthy Food for All: How Belo Horizonte (Brazil) does it with Municipal Restaurants and Grocery Stores, Mobile Markets, and More”
Professor Rocha also participated in a community conversation on Wednesday, April 22, from 11 AM to 12:30 PM at Eastern Market Corporation's Conference Room (2934 Russell, Detroit, MI 48207).
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Previous Speakers
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| Wayne Roberts
Coordinator of Toronto Food Policy Council, Toronto, Canada
November 20, 2008, 6 PM; Spencer Partrich Auditorium, WSU Law School
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| Will Allen
Executive Director of Growing Power (Milwaukee and Chicago), and 2008 MacArthur Fellow
October 13, 2008, 5:30 PM; Spencer Partrich Auditorium, WSU Law School
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