The goal of this series is to highlight the role of culture in understanding climate impacts on a variety of food systems as well as its potential for effectively building resilience and adaptive management. This work builds off past efforts from the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the USDA, specifically the 2015 publication “Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System,” by approaching the topic through the lens of a wider variety of social sciences. The panels will seek to include perspectives that understand the complexity of multiple disasters, both acute and chronic, on the social dynamics of food systems.
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Webinar 1: Socio-Cultural approaches to Climate, Food, and Agricultural Systems (September 14th @ 1:00 - 2:30 pm ET, 10:00 - 11:30 am PT)
This webinar will highlight the socio-cultural relationships and processes that maintain and adapt land-based food systems in the wake of climate change; it will also explore the ways climate and other disasters, including COVID-19, compound to affect the resilience of these relationships and related local economies.
Speakers:
Laurel Bellante, University of Arizona
Gail Myers, Farms to Grow, Inc.
Marie Schaefer, Michigan State University
Amy Trubek, University of Vermont
See Webinar 1 speaker bios and headshots here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EtbVF3WwWeGd6Lgt6CrpfNUpRP_Ivvyi/view?usp=sharing---------------------------------------------------
Webinar 2: Sustainable and Just Fisheries: Rethinking Climate Resilient Food Systems (September 28 @ 12:30 - 2:00 pm ET, 9:30 - 11:00 am PT)
This webinar will explore how culture and climate variability and change are shaping the role of Fisheries in a sustainable and equitable U.S. food system. It will also consider lessons learned from COVID-19 in recreating a just food system that is also climate resilient.
Speakers:
Monica Barra, University of South Carolina
Cynthia Grace-McCaskey, East Carolina University
Yoshitaka Ota, University of Washington
Patricia Pinto Da Silva, NOAA
See Webinar 2 speaker bios and headshots here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1svcfO0XLJM7MCOdVqhGt-DDFfA3wrjPA/view?usp=sharing---------------------------------------------------
Webinar 3: Putting Culture into Practice: The role of Social Science in Building Resilient and Adaptive Food Systems (October 12 @ 1:00 - 2:30 pm ET, 10:00 - 11:30 am PT)
This webinar builds upon discussion in the previous two webinars in order to specifically consider how culture informs resilient and adaptive food systems in the face of the complex disasters we face. The focus is the most critical areas of inquiry and practical solution-building, happening now and what is necessary in the future, for these culturally-grounded, resilient, adaptive food systems.
Speakers:
Suzan Erem, Sustainable Iowa Land Trust
Lauren Gentile, EPA
Natalia Pinzón Jiménez, University of California, Davis
James Rattling Leaf, Rattling Leaf Consulting
See Webinar 3 speaker bios and headshots here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iFmjYAgkowUVnehZSYvTu45WESE56NG6/view?usp=sharing