Planting Prosperity and Harvesting Health:

Trade-Offs and Sustainability in Our Regional Food System

A Forum on Food Sustainability

When? April 25th, 2008. Breakfast begins at 8:00 a.m.,program begins at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 3:00 p.m.

Where? Kaiser Town Hall, 3704 N. Interstate Ave., Portland, OR

About the forum:

• Can healthful food be affordable while farmers make a profit?
• Will we have enough farmers and workers to produce food in the future?
• Will our land and water supplies support food production and a growing population?
• Can our food system support sustainability goals for our food economy, our natural resources, and personal and community health?
• What are the connections among our food economy, our natural resources, our personal and community health?
• How will we know if our food system sustainability programs are making a difference?

These are some of the questions we will explore during the region’s first Food System Sustainability Forum.

The Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, with Support from the Kaiser Community Health Initiative, has developed a “State of the Regional Food System” report that includes a variety of data exploring the connections and trade-offs in the economic and physical health of our food system.

This forum is designed to discuss facts about our region’s food system and understand how we can use past, current, and future data to guide our decisions about how to sustain our regional food system.

Forum Materials (.pdf files):

Agenda

Speaker Biographies

Click here to download the draft report, Planting Prosperity and Harvesting Health: Trade-Offs and Sustainability in Our Regional Food System (.pdf file, 23.8 MB).

To open the file, you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded at http://www.adobe.com/

 Please note that this is a draft of the report. Based on the information we gathered at the April 25 Forum, we will be making revisions, and hope to have a final version available in August 2008. 

For more information about our Food Systems Sustainability Project, click here.