Author to speak about creating resilient agriculture in face of climate change

Posted on — Jeff Fobes

Dr. Laura Lengnick, author of the forthcoming book Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate will speak at a free event at UNCA’s Cherrill Center Jan. 26 at 7 p.m., according an announcement fro Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. A panel discussion will follow her talk. From ASAP’s announcement:

How will a changing climate affect the way we farm and what we eat? How do we build resilient and sustainable food systems? These questions and more will be explored on January 26 at a talk and panel discussion at the UNC Asheville Sherrill Center.

The talk features Dr. Laura Lengnick, author of the forthcoming book Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate and lead author of the recent USDA report “Climate Change and U.S. Agriculture: Effects and Adaptation.” Dr. Lengnick will give a talk on climate change impacts on the U.S. food system. Dr. Lengnick and panelists will also engage participants around the idea of climate change as an opportunity to reinvent a healthier, sustainable, and resilient food system.

Dr. Lengnick’s talk will be immediately followed by a panel discussion featuring local food system and climate change leaders who will share their work to understand and prepare for climate change and to build resilient food systems. The panel discussion will be moderated by Charlie Jackson, Director of ASAP (Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project). Panelists will include Dr. Lengnick; Jim Fox, Director for the National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC); Sally Eason, CEO of Sunburst Trout Farms; Dr. Allison Perrett, Researcher with ASAP’s Local Food Research Center.

This event will be held at UNC Asheville’s Sherrill Center in the Mission Health Mountain View Room (SHE 417). It will begin at 7:00 pm (doors will open at 6:45 p.m.) and conclude at 8:30 p.m. Admission is free.

This talk and panel is made possible through a collaborative effort of ASAP, Transition Asheville, UNC Asheville, and the UNC Asheville Interdisciplinary Distinguished Professorship of the Mountain South and Departments of Economics and Environmental Studies.

For more information, visit: http://asapconnections.org/front-page-posts/lengnick-event/

ABOUT ASAP (APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT)
ASAP’s mission is to help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food. To learn more about ASAP’s work, visit asapconnections.org <http://asapconnections.org/> , or call (828) 236-1282.

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About Jeff Fobes
As a long-time proponent of media for social change, my early activities included coordinating the creation of a small community FM radio station to serve a poor section of St. Louis, Mo. In the 1980s I served as the editor of the "futurist" newsletter of the U.S. Association for the Club of Rome, a professional/academic group with a global focus and a mandate to act locally. During that time, I was impressed by a journalism experiment in Mississippi, in which a newspaper reporter spent a year in a small town covering how global activities impacted local events (e.g., literacy programs in Asia drove up the price of pulpwood; soybean demand in China impacted local soybean prices). Taking a cue from the Mississippi journalism experiment, I offered to help the local Green Party in western North Carolina start its own newspaper, which published under the name Green Line. Eventually the local party turned Green Line over to me, giving Asheville-area readers an independent, locally focused news source that was driven by global concerns. Over the years the monthly grew, until it morphed into the weekly Mountain Xpress in 1994. I've been its publisher since the beginning. Mountain Xpress' mission is to promote grassroots democracy (of any political persuasion) by serving the area's most active, thoughtful readers. Consider Xpress as an experiment to see if such a media operation can promote a healthy, democratic and wise community. In addition to print, today's rapidly evolving Web technosphere offers a grand opportunity to see how an interactive global information network impacts a local community when the network includes a locally focused media outlet whose aim is promote thoughtful citizen activism. Follow me @fobes
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