Michael W. Hamm is C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture – Michigan State University and Director of the MSU Center for Regional Food Systems. Mike is also a Visiting Fellow of Mansfield College and the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and an FCRN network member.
City Region Food Systems – Part IIIB – Scale and Production Strategy
I think many of those in both the ‘small and organic is beautiful’ and the ‘large and conventional farms should supply the food’ sides are unnecessarily strident and unrealistic in their thinking.
July 21, 2015
City Region Food Systems – Part IIIA – Scale and Production Strategy
In this piece I analyze critiques of smaller scale and alternative production strategies from several angles. In the second I will discuss problems inherent in the argument that small scale can feed the U.S. population and consider a middle path of scale and production diversity.
July 14, 2015
City Region Food Systems – Part II – Who Will Farm?
Put another way, is the U.S. model of food sourcing scalable to an urbanized world of 9 billion?
July 10, 2015
City Region Food Systems – Part I – Conceptualization
In the developed world, as exemplified in the U.S., there has been a great schism in this regional food bond as more and more distant places become primary food sources.
July 7, 2015