There is growing interest in local food systems, but is local enough? Contextualizing “local” within a regional food system approach may enable us to make smarter decisions about transportation and infrastructure support, as well as the management of water and other natural resources.
Kate Clancy, Food Systems Consultant and Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, will review some of the arguments in favor of regional approaches to food systems development and policy efforts. She will offer examples from the Enhancing Food Security in the Northeast regional food systems/food security project, and engage webinar attendees in a discussion of how they have expanded their regional ties in the past year and how they might do more through the Chesapeake Foodshed Network and other institutions, followed by a question and answer period.