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Workshop information Workshop Name The Case for Local Food Systems Planning: Getting Food Systems Planning onto Your Local Policy Agenda Date Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 9:00 - 10:30 Location Zoom Webinar Deadline October 13, 2021 Price $20.00 From transportation to energy to housing, many local infrastructure systems receive attention and resources in local government and planning. Yet one essential system, food, is often overlooked. Local food systems can provide myriad benefits: they contribute to local economic development, provide important ecosystem services and mitigate climate change, and build food security and local resilience in the face of global disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic. What's more, planning for local food systems can often help local governments achieve other planning-related goals for their communities. Learn why local food systems planning is vital for community health, hear how communities are planning their local food systems, and explore where to start your local food systems planning process. Maybe you're ready to spearhead local food systems planning, but how do you actually get it off the ground? This workshop will also present several different pathways and approaches, share successful models and case studies, and raise important considerations for getting food systems planning onto your local policy agenda. Presented by: Catie DeMets, doctoral student, UW-Madison Dept. of Planning & Landscape Architecture; Carl T. Chenoweth, Dane County Board Supervisor & former member of the Dane County Food Council; Chippewa Valley Market Match Organizing Team: Nancy Coffey, Emeritus UW-Extension; FoodWIse Coordinator Sandy Tarter, FoodWIse Nutrition Coordinator; Eric M. Jamelske, Professor, Director of Collaborative Research, Dept. of Economics, UW-Eau Claire; Kate Beaton, former AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer   Participant information (* = required) First Name Required! Last Name Required! Suffix Organization Name Required! Title/Position Required! Address Required! Address 2 City Required! State Required! ZIP Code Required! E-mail Required!Invalid email address To contact you about your registration Phone Required! Please include area code, XXX-XXX-XXXX Please provide the following demographic information about yourself. This information is used to ensure our programming is reaching a diversity of audiences and to fulfil our obligations as a recipient of federal funding. You reserve the option to not provide this demographic information. Should you choose to not provide this information, please choose "Prefer not to respond."   Please indicate your race. Choose only one answer. I identify as having (check all that apply):   American Indian or Alaska Native (1)   Asian (2)   Black of African American (3)   Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (4)   White (5)   Two or more races (6)   Prefer not to respond (7) Please indicate your ethnicity. Choose only one answer. Hispanic or Latino (1) Not Hispanic or Latino (2) Prefer not to respond (3) Please indicate your “Sex”. Choose only one answer. Female (1) Male (2) Prefer not to respond (3) Please indicate your age. Choose only one answer. Adult (19 years or older) (1) Youth (18 years or younger) (2) Prefer not to respond (3)   Registration Category $20.00 If you have a Promo Code, please enter it here Payment Method Credit Card Check Doing Business As: The charge will appear on your credit card statement as UW Local Gov. Education. Cancellation Policy: To cancel a registration/payment, please contact lgc@extension.wisc.edu. Privacy Statement: The Local Government Education does not sell, rent, trade or distribute any personally identifiable customer information to any third party, except as required by law. Information collected by The Department of Animal Science is used for the administrative and operational purposes of our services. Contact: Please contact lgc@extension.wisc.edu, if you have any questions about your registration. NOTE: If you have a disability and desire accommodation, please advise us as early as possible. Requests are confidential.