The Wallace Stegner Center’s 25th annual symposium, to be held on Thursday and Friday, March 19 and 20, 2020, will address “Food and the Environment: Resilient and Equitable Food Security for the West.” The Symposium will focus on the connections between food and the environment through two lenses. First, it will examine issues regarding and means of promoting the simultaneous resilience of both food supplies and native ecosystems, such as by examining the intersections of food production and water supplies. Second, it will explore emerging and evolving ways to ensure equitable access to appropriate food ways for diverse western communities (e.g., ranching communities, tribes), including innovative approaches to making healthy food available to all residents along the Wasatch Front.
Symposium speakers include the following:
- Anne Effland, USDA Office of the Chief Economist
- Jessica (Jess) Fanzo, Global Food Ethics and Policy Program, Johns Hopkins University
- Severine Fleming, Greenhorns
- Aidee Guzman, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
- Richard (Rick) Knight, Department of Ecology, Colorado State University
- Matt Liebman, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University
- Joan McGregor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University
- Ashley Patterson, Wasatch Community Gardens
- Laurie Ristino, Strategies for a Sustainable Future, Center for Progressive Reform
- Michael T. Roberts, Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law
- Cari Tagge, Tagge CSI Farm
- Carlos Santana, Department of Philosophy, University of Utah
- Rebecca Tsosie, University of Arizona School of Law
- Cynthia Wilson, Utah Dine Bikeyah Traditional Foods Program
Additional information, including a full list of speakers and an agenda, will be posted online on the Stegner Center events website. Symposium registration will open after the first of the year.