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From Cafeterias to Capitol Hill:
Growing Healthy Kids, Farms and Communities
March 16-19, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland
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Keynote Speakers
Friday, March 16 - Dr. Roberta Sonnino
Dr. Roberta Sonnino has published extensively from her research on local food,
rural development and sustainable public procurement. Roberta is currently a
Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Planning in the School of City and Regional
Planning (Cardiff University). With Kevin Morgan, she is writing a book entitled
The School Food Revolution: Public Food and Sustainable Development in the 21st
Century, which examines sustainable school meal systems in Italy, the UK, the
United States and developing countries.
Saturday, March 17 - Dr. Kelly Brownell
Dr. Kelly Brownell is professor of the Department of Psychology at Yale University
where he also serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and as Director
of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. Dr. Brownell has advised members of
Congress, governors, world health and nutrition organizations, and media leaders on
issues of nutrition, obesity, and public policy. He was cited by Time magazine as a
leading "warrior" in the area of nutrition and public policy. In 2006,Time Magazine
listed Kelly Brownell among "the World's 100 Most Influential People" in its special
Time 100 issue featuring those "...whose power, talent or moral example is transforming
the world."
Sunday, March 18 - Senator Tom Harkin (Invited)
A lifelong advocate for America's family farms and rural communities, Senator Harkin
is likely to be the new Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. He has fought
to restore security to family farmers through improved farm income protection,
increased support for conservation and better demand and prices for farm commodities.
Senator Harkin has also devoted attention and resources to revitalize the economies of
rural communities and small towns.
Sunday March 18
Plenary: Seeking Balance in the Next Farm Bill
Every five years the Farm Bill provides the most important opportunity to shape the
nation's food system through federal farm and nutrition policy. This plenary will
feature two panels. The first panel will provide an overview of the 2007 Farm Bill,
and a description of the policy platforms of the CFSC and its partners to support
healthy farms, food, and communities. The second panel representing diverse urban and
rural communities will provide important perspectives on these policy goals. Senate
Agriculture Committee staff will present an analysis of the state of the Farm Bill in
Congress, and provide suggestions for how we can best move forward in the current
political climate.
Introduction: Andy Fisher, CFSC
Panel One: Thomas Forster, CFSC; Allen Hance, Northeast Midwest Institute; Max Finberg,
Alliance to End Hunger (invited); Jimmy Daukas, American Farmland Trust; Fred Hoefner,
Sustainable Agriculture Coalition; Savi Horne, Landloss Prevention Project
Respondent Panel: Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition; Ladonna Redmond, Institute
for Community Resource Development; Shana McConway-Davis, DC Hunger Solutions; Susan
Roberts, Food and Society Fellowship Program; Derek Miller (invited), US Senate
Agriculture Committee
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