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The Social Sciences Coordinating Committee of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is launching a public webinar series on the intersections between food, culture, and climate. The webinar series brings together researchers on food and culture, climate and food, and climate and culture to consider the ways in which these three pieces fit together. The series aims to highlight a range of social science perspectives on the U.S. food system and climate change that demonstrate the importance of societal conditions for its sustainability. We invite you to attend the webinar series! Please register here and see summarized information below.

There will be three webinars in the series:

1.       Socio-Cultural approaches to Climate, Food, and Agricultural Systems (September 14th @ 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET)

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

2.       Sustainable and Just Fisheries: Rethinking Climate Resilient Food Systems (September 28 @ 12:30 – 2:00 pm ET)

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

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)

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 – both now and 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

 

The format of the webinars will include brief introductions of the panelists, followed by a moderated discussion and Q&A from the audience. The webinars will each be 90 minutes in duration. Reach out to Austin Scheetz (ascheetz@usgcrp.gov) with any questions.

REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.gle/F1W8DA6szTC5FePF6

*Please use the above link to register the ‘register here’ button on the flyer does not work