DRAFT

Food Access Summit
August 2016
Draft Agenda

Join us as we highlight efforts that improve access to healthy food for South Carolinians with limited financial resources. The Food Access Summit will provide social policy tools, training and action-oriented ideas to educate and organize participants to support local and state efforts to make the food system equitable for all.

8:30-9:00: Open Registration and breakfast

9:00-9:20: Welcome and update from Food Access Task Force

9:30-9:40: Remarks from Aaron Wood, SC Department of Agriculture

9:40-10:30: Plenary:Building a Better Food System, Mark Winne

10:30-10:35: Break

10:35-11:50: Break out #1: PRACTICE

Supply and Affordability / Capital / Transportation and Planning
Session Title: Food Banks, Farms, and Future: Growing to Feed More
Moderator: Emily Pineda
Don Harris, Feeding America
John Becker, Food Bank of Northeast Georgia / Session Title:Innovative Sources of Capital for Healthy Food Projects
Moderator: Anna Lewin
Patrick King, South Carolina Community Loan Fund
Lowell Atkinson, South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development
Rochelle Sparko, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association / Session Title:Transportation and Planning in Practice
Moderator: Teresa Hill
Phillip Lookado, Director of Planning, Research, and Development, City of Florence
Caroline Sexton, Executive Director, HUB City Farmers Market
Heather Raines, Market Manager, HUB City Farmers Market
Farrah Dickerson, Volunteer Coordinator
Grace Ministries, Neighbor to Neighbor Program

11:50 Buffet Lunch Served/ Networking

12:00-1:00: Keynote: Food, politics and the economy: Overcoming Barriers to Access through Bottom Up Strategies, AnthonyFlaccavento:

1:00-1:05: Break

1:05-2:20: POLICY / ADVOCACY

Supply and Affordability / Capital / Transportation and Planning
Session Title:Hurdles and Opportunities to Stewarding Healthy Food Production
Moderator: Carrie Draper
Christina Spach, Food Chain Workers Alliance
Gary Spires , SC Farm Bureau Federation / Session Title:Using Food Policy Councils to Build an Economically Viable Food System
Mark Winne
Moderator: Anna Lewin / Session Title:Transportation Advocacy Round-Up
Moderator: Gregory Sprouse
Gregory Spouse, AICP, Director of Research, Planning, and Development, Central Midlands Council of Governments
John Newman, AICP, CFM, LEED-AP
John M. Newman Planning
Terecia Wilson, Director, Transportation Association of South Carolina

2:20-2:30: Coffee Break

2:30-3:40: COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Supply and Affordability / Capital / Transportation and Planning
Session Title:Models for Increasing Access to Fresh Produce for SNAP Shoppers
Moderator: Carrie Draper
Beverly Wilson, FoodShare
Dawn Grant, FoodShare
Jamie Gibson, HubCity Farmers Market
Maranda Williams, Travelers Rest Farmers Market / Session Title:Strategies for Building Local Capital Where it Seems to be Missing
Anthony Flaccavento, SCALE / Session Title:Working Collaboratively to Support Food Systems
Moderator: Teresa Hill
Guillermo Espinosa, Senior Planner, Central Midlands Council of Governments
David Lamie, Associate Professor of Agribusiness and Rural Development
Clemson University

3:40-4:15: Facilitated Wrap Up with Nikki Seibert Kelley, Founder, Wit Meets Grit

4:15-4:30: Book sales and signing