With Gary Paul Nabhan and Peter Warshal
Food security looms as a major flash point globally: Increasing populations, improved wealth in Brazil, India and China, climate change, pesticide-resistant crop diseases, the price of petro-based fertilizers, the dominance of industrial agriculture corporations that are too-big-not-to-fail, GMOs and more. These challenges pose grave threats to national and global food supplies and government stability. Given nature’s constraints of weather, water and soils, what is the role of agro-ecoregion production and trade in supplying seasonal healthy and affordable food? What are the assets, rewards and advantages of local food systems? How can they be designed into practical and prosperous local and regional foodshed economies? In short, how can agro-ecoregional economies provide resilience for local communities for the vagaries of the roller-coaster food systems of the 21st century?
Two leading innovators share their ideas, innovations, dreams, strategies, knowledge and working models that can promote a more local food economy, and a food economy that embodies food security, social equity, a healthy environment, and community wealth, while celebrating biocultural diversity.
Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally celebrated nature writer, founder of Native Seed/SEARCH, teacher, conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist who has been called “the father of the local food movement.”
Peter Warshall is an innovative ecologist, Co-Director of the Dreaming New Mexico’s project “The Age of Local Foodsheds and a Fair Trade State,” and has worked internationally and as an elected official on conservation/development issues involving water, agriculture, ranching and wildlife.
Epiphany Theater | 4:30pm-6pm, Sat
