9th Annual Sustainable Agriculture Research Symposium
Date/Time: | Wednesday, 10 Apr 2013 from 2:10 pm to 5:10 pm |
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Location: | Sun Room and South Ballroom, ISU Memorial Union |
Cost: | Free |
URL: | http://www.sust.ag.iastate.edu/gpsa/symposium.html |
Contact: | Charles Sauer |
Phone: | 515-294-6518 |
Channel: | Graduate College |
Categories: | Lectures Live Green |
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The keynote presentation will be made by Dan Carmody, beginninng at 3:10 PM.
Since 2007 Carmody has served as President of Detroit's Eastern Market Corporation (EMC) where he leads the non-profit charged with converting one of the nation's oldest and largest public markets into the nation's most comprehensive healthy metropolitan food hub.
EMC seeks to leverage its cluster of local food businesses and crop diversity from Michigan, Ontario, and Ohio by building alternative distribution methods to improve access to healthy food in underserved communities, by nurturing a new generation of niche food processors to increase food sector employment and create new markets for local producers including food grown in the City of Detroit, and by further enhancing Eastern Market as a compelling and convivial retail food destination.