[Scpg] Larry Yee, Food Commons: Sun. Apr. 7, 3pm in Ventura

[Brad Smith]

“The Food Commons model is a new economic paradigm and whole system approach for regional food.”

Larry Yee, Co-founder, and Coordinating Committee Member of The Food Commons (TFC) will present and discuss TFC at Citizens for Peaceful Resolution’s monthly general public meeting on Sunday, April 7th.

The Food Commons is a nonprofit organization that has developed a model for actualizing the food "revolution" in communities everywhere by creating the physical, financial and organizational infrastructure necessary for thriving regional food systems. The model is innovatively bold in scope and potential. Once built, it is a whole system, fully integrated and connected.

In recent years the demand for local food has increased significantly, driven largely by issues of better health, food security, access and sovereignty and the overwhelming need to rejuvenate local economies. Yet the infrastructure and its systematic integration do not exist to bring "good food" from field to table in sufficient quantity efficiently or effectively. Furthermore, old paradigm thinking persists and dominates.

For many years, the vast majority of private and public resources around food and agriculture have flowed in one direction – toward a large-scale, industrialized, fossil-fuel dependent, high-input and high-technology approach to food production, the primary goal of which has been to maximize corporate profits rather than to equitably distribute sufficient, healthy, and culturally appropriate food to the people everywhere, as well as to fairly compensate those who produce it. Indeed, our food system has evolved into a collection of "too-big-to-fail" agribusinesses and food corporations.

If you are interested in food, justice, environmental sustainability, equitable and functional social systems, come on down and join us for a great talk and lively conversation!

For more information, go to http://thefoodcommons.org

Sunday, April 7, 2013
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Topping Room, E.P. Foster Library
651 E. Main Street, Ventura
Admission Free

 
-Brad
805-705-5844 (voice, no texts, please)


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