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Wednesday, June 22 | |||
3:00 – 6:00 pm |
Registration |
Embassy Suites | |
5:00 – 7:00 pm |
Welcome Reception |
Embassy Suites | |
Thursday, June 23 |
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8:00 – 9:00 am |
Registration |
Lobby at K-State Olathe | |
9:00 – 9:30 am |
Welcome Eleni Pliakoni – Chair of the Organizing Committee |
Forum Hall | |
9:30 – 10:30 am |
Keynote Speaker |
Forum Hall | |
10:30 – 11:00 am |
Coffee/Tea Break |
Bistro | |
11:00 am – 12:00 pm |
Invited Speaker |
Forum Hall | |
12:00 – 1:30 pm |
Lunch break |
Bistro | |
1:30 – 3:00 pm |
Oral Session 1: Urban Food Production Systems |
Room 221 | |
1:30 |
Concepts of Sustainable Intensification for Urban Food Production Systems |
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1:45 |
Factors Contributing to and Limiting Vegetable Crop Productivity Across an Urban to Rural Transect in Greater Chicago, Illinois |
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2:00 |
Integrating High Tunnel Production to Provide Resiliency for Urban and Peri-urban Supply Chains |
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2:15 |
Managing Urban Garden Soils to Minimize Potential Soil Contaminant Transfer to Humans |
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2:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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1:30 – 3:00 pm |
Oral Session 2: Policy, Planning and Advocacy |
Room 222 | |
1:30 |
Strategic Planning: Exploring the Scope and Participants of the Food Movement to Enhance Systemic Change |
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1:45 |
St. Louis Regional Food Study Evaluates the Evolution of Industrial Food Production and Its Impacts on Public Health, Economics, and Environment |
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2:00 |
Constructing Resilient Systems in the Conservative South |
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2:15 |
Just Like Mama Used to Make: Urban Farming as an Adjunct to the Federal Import Regulatory Scheme Regarding Immigrant Foodways |
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2:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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1:30 – 3:00 pm |
Oral Session 3: Nutrition and Human Health |
Room 223 | |
1:30 |
Nutrition and Food Safety Extension Programming in Urban Kansas City |
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1:45 |
Incentivizing SNAP Transactions at Farmers’ Markets in Cleveland, Ohio |
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2:00 |
Development of an Environmental Health Risk Assessment Framework for Consumption of Foraged Items in the Urban Environment: a Baltimore, MD Case Study using Berries and Greens |
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2:15 |
Increasing Access to Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in a South Los Angeles Food Desert |
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2:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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3:00 – 3:30 pm |
Coffee/Tea Break |
Bistro and Bistro Patio | |
3:30 – 5:30 pm |
Poster Session and Networking |
Room 220 | |
3:30 – 5:30 pm |
Sponsor Exhibits |
2nd Floor Hallway | |
7:00 – 10:00 pm |
Farm Social |
K-State Olathe Horticulture Research and Extension Center 35230 W 135th St Olathe, KS 66061 |
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Friday, June 24 |
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9:00 – 9:10 am |
Welcome Ralph Richardson, Interim CEO, Kansas State University- Olathe |
Forum Hall | |
9:10 – 10:00 am |
Invited Speaker |
Forum Hall | |
10:00 – 10:30 am |
Break |
Bistro and Bistro Patio | |
10:30 – 11:30 am |
Invited Speaker |
Forum Hall | |
11:30 am – 12:30 pm |
Lunch |
Great Plains Room | |
11:30 am – 12:30 pm |
Student Lunch with Wayne Roberts |
Room 223 | |
12:30 – 1:30 pm |
Next Steps for the Urban Food Systems Symposium |
Great Plains Room | |
1:30 – 3:00 pm |
Oral Session 4: Urban Farmer Training |
Room 221 | |
1:30 |
Developing New Farmers at Cultivate Kansas City |
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1:45 |
The Kinsman Farm: A Case Study of an Urban Incubator Farm |
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2:00 |
Creating the Feeding Communities Project, an Urban Agriculture Training Program Designed for the Colorado Front Range |
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2:15 |
Growing Growers Training Program – Maximizing Impact through Collaboration |
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2:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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1:30 – 3:00 pm |
Oral Session 5: Food Security I |
Room 222 | |
1:30 |
Fighting Racism at its Root: An Examination of San Diego’s Community Gardens |
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1:45 |
Discursively Constructing Middle Class Positions: Food Insecurity Stories at a Midwestern Food Pantry |
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2:00 |
Food Systems for an Increasingly-Urban Population |
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2:15 |
Informal Assistance and the Risk of Household Food Insecurity for Urban Families |
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2:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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1:30 – 3:00 pm |
Oral Session 6: Community and Economic Development I |
Room 223 | |
1:30 |
Embedding Food Systems Development in Local Government |
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1:45 |
Iterative Mappings: Spatial Analysis for Community Food Resilience |
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2:00 |
The Urban Fisher Ecology: the Case of the Artisanal Fishing Community of the Bay of Chorrillos, Lima, Peru |
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2:15 |
Intergenerational Community Development through Urban Food Systems |
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2:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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3:00 – 3:30 pm |
Break |
Bistro | |
3:30 – 5:00 pm |
Oral Session 7: Food Security II |
Room 221 | |
3:30 |
Increasing Access to Local Food by Extending Shelf Life of Fresh Vegetables |
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3:45 |
Mobile Farmers’ Market Pilot Project Brings Everyone to the Table |
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4:00 |
Evaluating the Local Food System of Manhattan, Kansas: Producer and Institution Perspectives |
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4:15 |
Gathering Baltimore’s Bounty: Characterizations of Urban Foraging Behaviors, Motivations and Barriers |
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4:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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3:30 – 5:00 pm |
Oral Session 8: University/College Programs |
Room 222 | |
3:30 |
The Urban Edge: The Role of Urban Student Organic Farms in Raising Awareness of Food System Inequities |
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3:45 |
Advancing Urban Food Systems with Community-Campus Partnerships |
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4:00 |
Linking Undergraduate Student Learning Outcomes to Urban Agriculture in the Twin Cities |
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4:15 |
From University to Community: Providing Fresh Produce to Food Insecure Urban Communities in Greensboro, North Carolina |
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4:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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3:30 – 5:00 pm |
Oral Session 9: Community and Economic Development II |
Room 223 | |
3:30 |
Design and Decision Making for Year-Round Market Vegetable Production: Scale, Systems, and Season Extension |
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3:45 |
Local Farmer’s Markets as a Tool for Community Development |
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4:00 |
Funding Kansas Community Gardens: Lessons from a Mini-Grant Project |
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4:15 |
The Giving Grove Impact on Food Insecurity in Kansas City |
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4:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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6:30 – 10:30 pm |
Symposium Dinner Banquet |
Embassy Suites | |
Saturday, June 25 |
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8:30 am – 2:00 pm |
Urban Farm Tours, tours will begin and end at the Embassy Suites, lunch and beverages are included |