A Taste for Change: New Ways to Think and Talk About Food
A Taste for Change is designed to shed light on how the public thinks about our food system, as well as give participants new ways to think and talk about food. Through what is shared at the conference, participants should better understand what the public values about their food, as well as be able to anticipate attitudes and public perception of emerging food issues.
At the same time, the conference should broaden people’s understanding on how government agencies, businesses, and civic organizations work to inform and change public attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs. All of these perceptions — and ways of changing these perceptions — are crucial as Food and Society works to stimulate a taste for change in our food system.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Registration
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Dinner
8:30 - 9:30 p.m. Reception and Entertainment
*(Hosted by BLAST)
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
6:30 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:15 - 8:30 a.m. Welcome
8:30 - 8:45 a.m. Video Presentation
8:45 - 9:30 a.m. Introduction
9:30 - 10:15 a.m. What Do People Really Think About the Food System?
10:15 - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. World Café
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Small Group Sessions:
Engaging Across Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Local Food Systems Work, Room N4-666
Coalition Building and the Farm Bill: Opportunities and Challenges, Room N4-155
Expert Roundtable: What Works Now When We Talk About Our Food System, Room N4-586
The Effects of Wal-Mart on Our Food System, Room N4-849
Factories, Farmworkers, and College Food: The Power of Procurement and the Potentials of Student Organizing, Room N3-265
Creating Healthy Landscapes and Happy, Healthy Humans:What We Grow Matters, Part I, Room N3-555
World Trade Organization Shaking Things Up: Will the WTO Create an Opening for Sustainable Agriculture Policy? Room N3-155/N3-263
Slow Food and Terra Madre, Room N4-265
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Plenary: Public Policy and Our Food System
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Dinner: A Celebration of Local Foods
8:00 p.m. An Evening With the Capitol Steps
Thursday, April 28, 2005
6:30 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:15 - 9:45 a.m. Culture and Diversity in Our Food System
9:45 - 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. World Café: Applications of Framing
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Small Group Sessions:
- Obesity and the Food System
- Everything I Needed to Know About Meetings I Learned From Teenagers: Lessons On Making Work Fun and Appealing
- Branding 101
- Federal, Private, and Foundation Partnerships Supporting Food and Society Initiatives
- How to Scale Up Local Foods: Strategies
- Breaking With Tradition: Rethinking the University Role in the Community
- Sustaining and Growing Minority Farm Ownership: Access to Federal and Private Resources
- How Media Cover the News: An Insider?s Look at How Reporters Find and Frame Their Stories
- A Taste From the Pasture: Meats
- A Taste From the Pasture: Cheeses
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Small Group Sessions:
- Building and Extending Value Chains: Forging Links for a Sustainable Future
- Food Security in Changing Times
- Faith-Based Efforts
- Business Planning for Food Entrepreneurs
- Creating Healthy Landscapes and Happy, Healthy Humans: What We Grow Matters
- The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter
- Policy Change Both Near and Far: How Local and Federal Policymakers View Food and Agriculture
- A Taste From the Pasture: Meats
- A Taste From the Pasture: Cheeses
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Dinner
7:30 p.m. The Amazing Kellogg Race
Friday, April 29, 2005
6:30 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:15 - 10:00 a.m. World Café
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Closing Reflections
11:00 a.m. - Noon Social Change and the Food System
Noon Optional Lunch