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hanks to everyone who has shared links and leads to webinars and other programs! To clarify. I will post the final list of FREE webinars and other distance learning programs late next week. I will also post separate lists of FOR-FEE online degree programs, certification programs, and fee-based distance learning programs. Examples of these include Ryerson University's Certificate in Food Security and Green Mountain College's new Masters in Sustainable Food Systems. So, please do continue to send me examples of all of the above! Cheers, Duncan -----Original Message----- From: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group [mailto:SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU] On Behalf Of Duncan Hilchey Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 12:59 PM To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU Subject: [SANET-MG] Food System Webinar Compilation Dear SANET List, Below is what I've collected so far toward a compilation of free webinars and distance learning programs of potential interest to food system and agricultural development professionals.  I do not believe this is exhaustive by any means. However, this is based on what folks (on COMFOOD, SANET, and FOOD PLANNING lists) led me to and what I was able to glean on my own from the Internet. I excluded some recommendations which I felt were too limited in scope. On the whole, the sustainable/organic agriculture and "good food" communities seems to have done an excellent job getting comprehensive programs online. I was less successful in identifying webinars and distance learning programs on food security. I do not know if there's a niche to produce these or whether I was simply not looking in the right place. In any case, please continue to send me links and leads-as well as corrections (I did this rather hastily). I will post the final compilation in the next few weeks-once your suggestions are exhausted. I would eventually like to see a one stop shopping clearing house created where e

Feeding the City: The Challenge of Urban Food Planning.Full Text Available By: Morgan, Kevin. International Planning Studies, Nov2009, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p341-348, 8p; DOI: 10.1080/13563471003642852 Subjects: NUTRITION policy; FOOD industry; DEVELOPED countries; All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing; Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing Database: Academic Search Premier  Add to folder PDF Full Text (60KB) 2. Academic Journal Community and Regional Food Planning: Building Institutional Support in the United States.Full Text Available By: Pothukuchi, Kameshwari. International Planning Studies, Nov2009, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p349-367, 19p; DOI: 10.1080/13563471003642902 Subjects: NUTRITION policy; PUBLIC health -- United States; FOOD; OBESITY; NONPROFIT organizations; UNITED States Database: Academic Search Premier  Add to folder PDF Full Text (129KB) 3. Academic Journal On Places Lost and Places Regained: Reflections on the Alternative Food Geography and Sustainable Regional Development.Full Text Available By: Wiskerke, Johannes S. C.. International Planning Studies, Nov2009, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p369-387, 19p, 1 Diagram, 1 Chart; DOI: 10.1080/13563471003642803 Subjects: FOOD industry; AGRICULTURAL industries; NUTRITION policy; FOOD supply; MALNUTRITION; All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing; Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing Database: Academic Search Premier    Add to folder PDF Full Text (175KB) 4. Academic Journal Urban Governance for Food Security: The Alternative Food System in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.Full Text Available By: Rocha, Cecilia; Lessa, Iara. International Planning Studies, Nov2009, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p389-400, 12p; DOI: 10.1080/13563471003642787 Subjects: FOOD industry; NUTRITION policy; FOOD consumption; FOOD security; BELO Horizonte (Brazil); BRAZIL; All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing; Perishable Prepared Food Manufacturing Database: Academic Search Premier  Add to folder PDF Full Text (114KB) 5. Academic Journal The Canadian Pione

Take a breath.... Read slowly.How often in the course and crush of our daily lives do we afford ourselves moments to truly relish-to truly be present in-the act of preparing and eating food? For most of us, our enjoyment of food has fallen victim to the frenetic pace of our lives and to our increasing estrangement, in a complex commercial economy, from the natural processes by which food is grown and produced. Packaged, artificial, and unhealthful, fast food is only the most dramatic example of the degradation of food in our lives, and of the deeper threats to our cultural, political, and environmental well-being.In 1986, Carlo Petrini decided to resist the steady march of fast food and all that it represents when he organized a protest against the building of a McDonald's near the Spanish Steps in Rome. Armed with bowls of penne, Petrini and his supporters spawned a phenomenon. Three years later Petrini founded the International Slow Food Movement, renouncing not only fast food but also the overall pace of the "fast life." Issuing a manifesto, the Movement called for the safeguarding of local economies, the preservation of indigenous gastronomic traditions, and the creation of a new kind of ecologically aware consumerism committed to sustainability. On a practical level, it advocates a return to traditional recipes, locally grown foods and wines, and eating as a social event. Today, with a magazine, Web site, and over 75,000 followers organized into local "convivia," or chapters, Slow Food is poised to revolutionize the way Americans shop for groceries, prepare and consume their meals, and think about food.Slow Foodnot only recalls the origins, first steps, and international expansion of the movement from the perspective of its founder, it is also a powerful expression of the organization's goal of engendering social reform through the transformation of our attitudes about food and eating. As Newsweekdescribed it, the Slow Food movement has now become the basis for

Local Food in Retail: Two Models, One Goal - filed under: Subject_ValueChain, Webinar, Subject_Retail/Food service Fair Food, a non-profit and Weavers Way, a co-op, both in Philadelphia, have a similar commitment to selling local food at retail, but have different and complementary approaches. Contents Description Recording Slides Presenter Bios June 16, 2011: Local Food in Retail: Two Models, One Goal Description In order to build a thriving local food system it takes actors from different sectors, each working to their strengths. Philadelphia is, in many ways, a national leader for innovative approaches to retail. Fair Food is a non-profit with a long history of championing local food in Philadelphia. Their many market-based programs and services are a model and stepping stone for local food retail from very small to very large. Weaver's Way Co-op is a thriving retail cooperative with three locations in Philadelphia, including one in an underserved community. Their commitment to selling local food has supported many small farmers, and secured a loyal membership. Learn how these two organizations with similar commitment to an idea, but very different approaches, are building Philadelphia's local food economy.

By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it is time for answers, and Slow Food Nation steps up to the challenge. Here the charismatic leader of the Slow Food movement, Carlo Petrini, outlines many different routes by which we may take back control of our food. The three central principles of the Slow Food plan are these: food must be sustainably produced in ways that are sensitive to the environment, those who produce the food must be fairly treated, and the food must be healthful and delicious. In his travels around the world as ambassador for Slow Food, Petrini has witnessed firsthand the many ways that native peoples are feeding themselves without making use of the harmful methods of the industrial complex. He relates the wisdom to be gleaned from local cultures in such varied places as Mongolia, Chiapas, Sri Lanka, and Puglia. Amidst our crisis, it is critical that Americans look for insight from other cultures around the world and begin to build a new and better way of eating in our communities here.

Session for AAG annual conference: Toward an Engaged Geographic Analysis of Food Deserts and its Contestation through Community Gardening in Inner-City Urban Areas  Co-organizers: Timothy L. Hawthorne, Columbus State University Rina Ghose, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  Description: Food security has emerged as a major global problem exacerbated by volatility in market prices. Creation of food deserts in the inner-city neighborhoods of urban America has been a particularly significant problem. With increasing outward expansion, communities and neighborhoods in and near the central city are suffering from a loss of population, incomes, and resources. The loss of grocery stores that sell fresh produce, in particular, is problematic for these communities given the significant drop in health outcomes tied to food inaccessibility. To make matters worse, a lack of access to affordable and conveniently located produce and grocery stores disproportionately affects lower income (and in many cases minority) population groups that still live in or near central city neighborhoods. Food deserts, or areas where fresh produce and grocery stores are scarce, are becoming a reality in the nation's lower income, central city communities. Some central city community residents and activists have sought to mitigate this lack of access through the grass-roots creation of community urban gardens in vacant lots. This movement is particularly gaining momentum as the effects of deindustrialization and disinvestment become more apparent, as many inner-cities contain empty lots from the loss of industries as well as from the housing crisis. The geographic analysis of urban gardening in inner-city as a response to local food insecurity, through engaged scholarship and partnerships with local residents, offers an interesting avenue of research related to urban quality-of-life. In this session, we offer a variety of theoretical approaches, research methodologies and empirical findings fo

By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it is time for answers, and Slow Food Nation steps up to the challenge. Here the charismatic leader of the Slow Food movement, Carlo Petrini, outlines many different routes by which we may take back control of our food. The three central principles of the Slow Food plan are these: food must be sustainably produced in ways that are sensitive to the environment, those who produce the food must be fairly treated, and the food must be healthful and delicious. In his travels around the world as ambassador for Slow Food, Petrini has witnessed firsthand the many ways that native peoples are feeding themselves without making use of the harmful methods of the industrial complex. He relates the wisdom to be gleaned from local cultures in such varied places as Mongolia, Chiapas, Sri Lanka, and Puglia. Amidst our crisis, it is critical that Americans look for insight from other cultures around the world and begin to build a new and better way of eating in our communities here. « Menos

More than twenty years ago, when Italian Carlo Petrini learned that McDonald's wanted to erect its golden arches next to the Spanish Steps in Rome, he developed an impassioned response: he helped found the Slow Food movement. Since then, Slow Food has become a worldwide phenomenon, inspiring the likes of Alice Waters and Michael Pollan. Now, it's time to take the work of changing the way people grow, distribute, and consume food to a new level. On a global scale, as Petrini tells us inTerra Madre, we aren't eating food. Food is eating us. Large-scale industrial agriculture has run rampant and penetrated every corner of the world. The price of food is fixed by the rules of the market, which have neither concern for quality nor respect for producers. People have been forced into standardized, unnatural diets, and aggressive, chemical-based agriculture is ravaging ecosystems from the Great Plains to the Kalahari. Food has been stripped of its meaning, reduced to a mere commodity, and its mass production is contributing to injustice all over the world. InTerra Madre, Petrini shows us a solution in the thousands of newly formed local alliances between food producers and food consumers. And he proposes expanding these alliances'connecting regional food communities around the world to promote good, clean, and fair food. The end goal is a world in which communities are entitled to food sovereignty'allowed to choose not only what they want to grow and eat, but also how they produce and distribute it.

A growing field of research is documenting the political investment of the consumer. Yet, consumers are invested of political responsibilities in many different ways, which respond to different visions of politics and consumption, culture and the economy. In this article we critically explore the particular stance of an increasingly international actor such as Slow Food, placing it in the context of current debates on the scope of alternative food networks and on the moral boundaries of the market. Starting from the Slow Food core in Bra, Italy, and through a variety of qualitative sources, both primary (interviews) and secondary (publications, public speeches), we show that while Slow Food contributes to the current political investment of the consumer, it does so in distinctive ways which bear witness to its gastronomic origin and middle-class constituency. Slow Food rhetoric works out a politically-thick vision of taste refinement: its imagined consumer is an 'eco-gastronome', someone who adds ecological concerns onto a continuously trained aesthetic appreciation of food. The article considers the scope of what Slow Food has defined as the 'right to pleasure' in the face of a tension between inclusion and exclusion running through contemporary consumer culture. It concludes by exploring Slow Food's current shifts towards issues such as economic growth, access to resources and environmental protection - crucial in defining the complex world of critical consumption - through a politico-aesthetic problematization of food consumption.

Editorial Statement Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published on May 21, 2010 Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc 2010 3: 169; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq017 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]   Betsy Donald, Meric Gertler, Mia Gray, and Linda Lobao Re-regionalizing the food system? Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published on June 2, 2010 Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc 2010 3: 171-175; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq020 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]   Articles Moya Kneafsey The region in food-important or irrelevant? Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published on May 7, 2010 Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc 2010 3: 177-190; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]   Nathan McClintock Why farm the city? Theorizing urban agriculture through a lens of metabolic rift Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published on March 25, 2010 Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc 2010 3: 191-207; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]   Kevin Morgan and Roberta Sonnino The urban foodscape: world cities and the new food equation Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published on March 10, 2010 Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc 2010 3: 209-224; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq007 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]   Terry Marsden Mobilizing the regional eco-economy: evolving webs of agri-food and rural development in the UK Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access published on May 14, 2010 Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc 2010 3: 225-244; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]   Jill K. Clark, Darla K. Munroe, and Becky Mansfield What counts as farming: how classification limits regionalization of the food system Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance

Slow Food: An Interview with Carlo Petrini Abstract Carlo Petrini is the Founder and President Emeritus of Slow Food, a movement that was founded in Italy in 1986. Slow Food has grown to become an international non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization with the aim to halt the disappearance of local food traditions and people's dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

Founded in Italy in 1986 by charismatic Italian gourmand Carlo Petrini, Slow Food has grown into a phenomenally successful movement against the uniformity and compromised quality of fast food and supermarket chains. With nearly 85,000 members in 45 countries around the world, Slow Food has developed from a small, grassroots group into the most influential gastronomic movement in the world. Known as the "WWF of endangered food and wine," Slow Food not only focuses on a slower, more natural and organic lifestyle that complements nature, but also works to preserve dying culinary traditions, conserve natural biodiversity, and protect fading agricultural practices threatened in this age of mass consumerism. The book takes the reader on a gastronomic journey through the practices and traditions of the world's ethnic cuisines, from the artisanal cheeses of Italy to the oysters of Cape May and the native American turkey. It includes testimonies from Slow Food representatives-such as Alice Waters of Chez Panisse-illustrating exactly what they are doing-and what still needs to be done-to preserve them.

OVERVIEW OF THE WALLACE HUFED CENTER (MORE AT HUFED.ORG) The Wallace HUFED Center supports and enables greater access to healthy affordable food in underserved, limited resource communities across the country.  The Center provides grants and technical assistance to support enterprise development and business-based approaches to getting more healthy food into communities which have limited access, with an emphasis on sourcing locally and regionally produced food. HUFED is unique because it is focused on developing solutions that create jobs, offer economic incentives to farmers, and that can be all or partially self-sustaining beyond the grant period.  To date, the Wallace HUFED Center has awarded 30 grants and is providing technical assistance to many of them. The portfolio of grants include: feasibility study, small enterprise and large enterprise grants; and represent a diverse mix of regions, geographies, urban and rural, demographics, and approaches.  We will be gathering and sharing the knowledge and learning that the Center generates, and ultimately document the models that work, in order to support their replication and adaptation to other regions, and to help inform national decision makers and food access champions. The Wallace HUFED Center is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture and was conceived in Farm Bill 2008.

In May 2007, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi suddenly banned cooking street foods, with Supreme Court endorsement. Public health concerns overrode implications for the livelihoods of food sellers or Delhi's food culture. This article interprets the ban through an analysis of municipal policy against a backdrop of economic reforms, restructuring retail systems, emerging food safety awareness and growing middle-class claims to the city. It argues that the ban's sudden emergence obscures a regulatory history that consistently privileged particular types of retail, through policy design, formulation and differential implementation. Ostensibly addressing public health, the ban's significance hence lies in reflecting a spatial politics between competing claims of the poor and the middle classes to urban public space.

A DISTRICT FOR HAZELNUT SECTOR: RURAL OR AGRO-FOOD SYSTEM? ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LAWS FOR THE GOVERNANCE OF MONTI CIMINI (ITALY)Authors:   S. Franco, S. MarongiuKeywords:   district, territorial development, territorial governance, local systemsAbstract: Today, the analysis founded on agricultural systems is very useful in the territorial programming of characteristic regions. Using the scheme of District developed in the industrial economy studies (Marshall analysis), different kinds of models were used in the agricultural sector analysis. In Italy, national and regional laws were formulated taking into account the importance of a global and territorial approach in the local development. More specifically, the National Law 228/2001 introduces two different ways to govern the territory: the rural and agro-food district. In particular, the first is used when there are many activities carried out in the territory, while the second is applied in the presence of a sectorial specialization in some agricultural production. Consequently, the kind of interventions in the District Plan is different. Lazio has individuated a district for Monti Cimini (Viterbo Province) with the Regional Law 1/2006. In this territory, hazelnut cultivation is one of the most important sectors, characterized by a high level of specialization (from the mechanical sector to the commercialization of products). The objective of this study is to illustrate why the choice of the agro-food district for hazelnut rather than the rural district has been more adapted for Monti Cimini governance. Starting from an analysis on the rural concept, based on different indicators that measure a kind of "rurality degree" (defined using the population density and the number of services workers in the General Population Census), the study provides evidence that the most rural areas of Viterbo Province are not those in which the hazelnut sector is highly developed and specialized. So, in these last

Originally published in 2002, this was one of the first books on the Slow Food movement. We are offering this wonderful volume in paperback for home cooks who strive to preserve the traditions of growing, cooking, and eating good food. With 15 profiles of artisans plus 45 time-tested recipes by chefs and cooks (Alice Waters, Rick Bayless, and more), this cookbook promotes regional heirloom foods that feature local ingredients and/or have been prepared the same way for generations

Gastronomie!: Food Museums and Heritage Sites of France Tom Hughes, Meredith Sayles Hughes 2 Resenhas Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc., 2005 - 128 páginas The first extensive exploration ever of French food historic sites, from the Saffron Museum in Boynes to the Chocolate Museum in Biarritz, from the oyster beds of Ile d'Oléron to the melon statue in Cavaillon.

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The cost of auto orientation MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 2012 | CHARLES MAROHN In the United States we've proceeded for sixty years with reconfiguring our public spaces to accommodate the automobile. The built in assumption of this approach, especially when it comes to commercial property, is that the more cars driving by the better. What we've overlooked in our haste to "modernize" is the lower return on investment we get from this approach, even under ideal conditions. Today we need the humility to acknowledge that our ancestors -- who built in the traditional style -- may have known what they were doing after all. After a nice break, we want to welcome everyone back and wish you all a fantastic 2012. We're still dedicated to publishing this blog at least three days a week (typically Monday, Wednesday and Friday) as well as releasing a podcast every week or two. We've got one other channel here we'll be starting next week, so stay tuned. If you'd like to stay informed with what's going on with the Strong Towns movement, sign up for our newsletter. We don't share your address and we don't spam. We do bite though, at least rhetorically. Highway 210 runs east/west through downtown Brainerd. In the hierarchical road system, it is the top of the pyramid and would be classified in most places as a "major arterial". It is designed as a STROAD (a street/road hybrid), attempting to apply highway design standards to what otherwise would be an urban street. In doing so, it has dramatically transformed the land use pattern of the area. The picture below highlights two blocks that front the highway corridor. The one on the left, which we've labeled "old and blighted", is a block that has retained its traditional development pattern. To the right we have identified the "shiny and new" area, the block that has recently been transformed to an auto-oriented development style, to the glee of city officials and local economic development advocates. In between is a hybrid of the two; part

'Slow Food' preconiza uma nova gastronomia. Ao gastrônomo cabe o papel que Carlos Petrini denomina 'coprodutor' - alguém conhecedor da agricultura e pecuária; das condições dos trabalhadores do campo; da procedência dos produto. Ser uma pessoa ativa na mudança do planeta - rejeitar alimentos provenientes de exploração humana, de meios de transporte poluidores em excesso, de empresas que arruínam culturas locais ao se instalarem nas comunidades. Tudo isso para que um mundo mais justo e sustentável se torne realidade.