Welcome, all! Thank you for joining us today. Some housekeeping: Please use the Q&A feature below the speaker video to send in your questions. Please do not use this chat box for questions, but feel free to share relevant resources. Finally, please use #SEJ2021 to tweet about this event. The webinar will be recorded and emailed along with the chat file to all attendees ASAP. Thanks!Follow our panelists here:Chris Clayton: @ChrisClaytonDTNChanning Arndt: @channingarndtMartin Frick: @cmfrickEsther Honig: @estherhonig

Welcome, all! Some housekeeping for those just joining us: Please use the Q&A feature below the speaker video to send in your questions. Please do not use this chat box for questions, but feel free to share relevant resources. Finally, please use #SEJ2021 to tweet about this event. The webinar will be recorded and emailed along with the chat file to all attendees ASAP. Thanks!Follow our panelists here:Chris Clayton: @ChrisClaytonDTNChanning Arndt: @channingarndtMartin Frick: @cmfrickEsther Honig: @estherhonig

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hello everyone

Hi everyone!

I write a column for Northern Colorado in order to help people learn how to create a sustainable society. Education is the first step. We can do this.

https://northfortynews.com/?s=Gaia+Grows+

Coming to you from Fort Collins

Nice

Hi everyone

Permaculture

Nederland/Boulder…we should have a CO rendezvous!

I am down for a party

Is there a link for the Indigenous peoples' food forum?

I would also like to have that link

wow that would be great to work with indigenous peoples on this.

Greetings to everyone from Kathy Helms, next door to the Navajo Nation and Pueblo of Acoma in New Mexico

IFPRI@UNFSS page - https://www.ifpri.org/ifpri-unfss-2021UNFSS relevant recent publications – Selected by UNFSS Science Group - https://sc-fss2021.org/2021/03/19/relevant-new-publications-for-the-food-systems-summit/

Peace Navajo Nation from Northern Colorado

How climate change interacts with inequity to affect nutrition - https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.696

more like a sin

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Hi, Kathleen, I believe I have read some of your articles

nice

Does focusing on women farmers with climate resilience strategies pay off? - https://www.ifpri.org/blog/icae-event-does-focusing-women-farmers-climate-resilience-strategies-payA focus on gender is key to climate adaptation - https://www.ifpri.org/blog/focus-gender-key-climate-adaptation

I pray we can change this. No one should go hungry.

Esther Honig’s work: https://www.estherhonig.me/#recent

#SEJournalTipSheet: Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture Acknowledged by Experts - https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/climate-change-impacts-agriculture-acknowledged-experts

https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov/

Colorado State is an agriculture college. Great programs for both horticulture and agriculture. Also horticulture therapy.

water issues are major very good point.

USDA Climate Hubs: https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov/regional-data-and-research

How climate change will impact agricultural productivity in Central America and the Andean Region - https://www.ifpri.org/blog/how-climate-change-will-impact-agricultural-productivity-central-america-and-andean-region

UC system is a great resource for ideas and anaysis. https://caes.ucdavis.edu/

For the Colorado crew: https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov/hubs/northern-plains

Hello from Portland, O.

the pandemic was a great teacher cause transportation was an issue and the local system was not strong.

Kristin wrote the Soil Will Save Us.

Deb, I think this is the indigenous forum mentioned earlier: INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FORUM ON FOOD SOVEREIGNTY: https://www.iitc.org/event/second-meeting-iipffs/

it is hard for farmers to get funding

SEJ TipSheet: Tracking the Big Climate Bills — An Infrastructure/Reconciliation Breakdown https://www.sej.org/publications/tipsheet/tracking-big-climate-bills-infrastructurereconciliation-breakdown

real issue

#SEJournalReportersToolbox: Getting Started on the Sustainable Ag Beat - https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/getting-started-sustainable-ag-beat

it just needs to be redesigned

in harmony with nature

UN report calls for repurposing of USD 470 billion of agricultural support that distorts prices, environment and social goals - https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/un-report-calls-repurposing-usd-470-billion-agricultural-support

everything is connected

like a web

Food label sell by dates also contribute to food waste

some years ago new zealand removed all ag subsidies, with reportedly positive results

permaculture will green a desert

Madagascar is on the verge of famine, I read last week. They can’t eat food stamps.

Devex has just launched a food systems newsletter: https://www.devex.com/newsletters/devex-dish We are eager for your engagement!

teach gardening in schools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqJrkLy5VdQ

I just reported on the community sourcing angle. https://www.goodfoodjobs.com/blog/avery-cramer-and-the-garden-plot/

and that makes them sick

there is a billion microbes in a cup of soil.

you kill them and bye bye nutrients

in your veggies

agree on biodiversity in soils! In a healthy system, both, microbes in soils and the microbes in our bodies, digesting food for us, are a balanced system

in other words: healthy soils help epople to be healthy

hydroponics sequester zero carbon

Yes, Martin!

microbes are like bees…only recently have we started to realize we can’t life without them

absolutely - and soils - and the loss and degradations of soils - are still too little know

it is a huge crisis, really

CA has a Healthy Soils program https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/healthysoils/

Locally we should switch the emphasis from recycling trash to composting waste…given that we are robbing the soil of food that it needs

I am participating with a great group of people in an event on soil health on September 17

we just need to find the balance in nature. It was designed to serve us.

https://sustainablefinance.fmocomms.nl/?x=7e6a235576a5f74c976e19a2a077b5127a94594a9b6dc814ca5f8fedf7c732fd&locale=en_US

Study suggests that climate smart agriculture can boost yields, reduce hunger and emissions globally - https://www.ifpri.org/blog/study-suggests-climate-smart-agriculture-can-boost-yields-reduce-hunger-and-emissions-globally

How to encourage farmers to adopt sustainable agriculture - https://www.ifpri.org/blogs?keyword=climate change&ss_search_author=&sort_by=ds_year&page=2" \l ":~:text=How to encourage farmers to adopt sustainable agriculture

Oops! How to encourage farmers to adopt sustainable agriculture - https://www.ifpri.org/blogs?keyword=climatechange&ss_search_author=&sort_by=ds_year&page=2" \l ":~:text=How to encourage farmers to adopt sustainable agriculture

How can we save the chat?

yes very good point

I think if the meeting is recorded, so is the chat

i think they said the chat will be saved and emailed to us

Hi, Judith! The video and chat will be emailed to you.

Is there a link for the soil health event on Sept. 17?

lol

we need to focus on small ag more

Hi all, I’m a former journalist currently working with the Rainforest Alliance…central to our work is helping farmers do just this in 70 countries. If you’re working on a story or thinking about one around agroforestry, natural climate solutions, etc, please reach out! cbennett@ra.org

Soil health as a foundation tosustainable food systems 17 September 2021: https://sustainablefinance.fmocomms.nl/?x=7e6a235576a5f74c976e19a2a077b5127a94594a9b6dc814ca5f8fedf7c732fd&locale=en_US

on the topic of solutions, part of the problem is the way we present news. When people are overwhelmed they tune out. Switching to a “solutions journalism” format has been shown to have an impact on positive change: https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/

Colorado too

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350327927_The_Farm_Bill_IS_Climate_Change_Legislation

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352223522_The_Farm_Bill_IS_Health_Care_Reform

I am on my third fire and the water is all black this year from the last fire and comes down the mountains. 1st time I ever saw this and it is irrigation water.

Soils are the largest active terrestrial carbon pool. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/35923/Soil-Organic-Carbon-MRV-Sourcebook-for-Agricultural-Landscapes.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

it is the micro world

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) - World Bank Group: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/climate-smart-agriculture

Investment in agricultural research key to offsetting climate change impacts - https://www.ifpri.org/blog/investment-agricultural-research-key-offsetting-climate-change-impacts

can't see all that life with out a micro scope but you can't see covid either and well it still is real.

I've been reporting on how federal forestry policies have contributed to huge wildfires and how Indigenous land management protocols have been blocked by the feds and states for years now. Climate change just makes a bad problem, worse.

$15.2 billion in research and innovation investments can put global climate and hunger goals within reach - https://www.ifpri.org/blog/152-billion-research-and-innovation-investments-can-put-global-climate-and-hunger-goals-within

a farmer with equity should be able to get funding easy. The financial world is working against farming

the stock broker doesn't eat if the farmer is not growing food.

#SEJournalReportersToolbox: Getting Started on the Sustainable Ag Beat - https://www.sej.org/publications/reporters-toolbox/getting-started-sustainable-ag-beat

restaurant food is expensive because labor costs are relatively high

One solution to famine has been to grow mushrooms: https://www.businessinsider.com/syria-refugees-mushrooms-civil-war-2020-1

Rent, food and labor costs are going up. But people don't want to spend more when they eat out.

An issue in NM and AZ is farming on land previously contaminated by uranium mining

the real estate market

On climate finance point - some good ideas for restructuring debt for climate action in this recent piece by Anmol Vanamali (from Wilson Center blog) https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2021/08/covid-19-fight-climate-change-learned/

Hi, Kathleen! Yes, the chat log will be emailed along with the recording.

nice

Link to Esther's story?

Certification isn’t a silver bullet…but it can help

we should have the grocery stores to get at least 50% local produce

a requirement to have a grocery in your community.

Hi, Priscilla! Here’s Esther’s recent work: https://www.estherhonig.me/#recent

Love the shoutout to my former colleagues at the New Security Beat, a great follow for food-climate-security connections & more: @newsecuritybeat

less transportation also

and ensures community is food secure

finger snaps all around on more labor reporting

Climate Change and hunger: Estimating costs of adaptation in the agri-food system - https://www.ifpri.org/publication/climate-change-and-hunger-estimating-costs-adaptation-agrifood-system

A lot of farm workers can’t afford to buy their own food

Many farmers also have to follow the grocery requests/contracts to grow certain crops in certain methods, all while selling at a low rate—limiting the diversity and profit margin.

and healing

veterans make great farmers and gardeners

PFAS contamination at military bases might be an impediment to growing

SEJ Issue Backgrounder: As Climate Change Brings Extreme Heat Events, Human Health Is a Casualty: https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/climate-change-brings-extreme-heat-events-human-health-casualty

Martin, growing your own food needs to be connected to zoning…some cities in the US (and many suburban HOAs) prohibit agriculture. Zoning changes could also require new housing units to have green spaces instead of parking spaces

The International Rescue Committee does amazing work with at risk populations in the US https://www.rescue.org/announcement/fighting-hunger-among-newcomers-united-states

yes zoning great point

https://foodsystems.community/

permaculture is a great guide

it’s really shocking that many HOAs won’t let you grow vegetables

thank you

foodsystem.community

great info! thanks!

Thank you!

Thanks very much for this webinar!

Thank you!!

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Thank you! Nice job, Chris

Great panel, thank you!

Thank you all!

Thanks for a very interesting discussion!

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