permaculture

[Permaculture Cooperative <permaculturecoop@gmail.com>]

globalising localisation with Bill Gates and friends

you have to ask the question: why does the Gates Foundation want to get
involved with Local Food ?


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From: Head, Cari Beth <CBHead@winrock.org>
Date: Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:08 AM
Subject: [COMFOOD:] THURSDAY: Kathleen Merrigan and Gates Foundation speak
to Community Food Enterprise, economic development
To: comfood@elist.tufts.edu


 Community Food Enterprise Panel + Discussion:*
Examining the Role of CFEs in Local Economic Development**
**January 28, 2010 | Washington, DC + Online Audio Broadcast
**REGISTER! <http://communityfoodenterprise-comfood.eventbrite.com/>*

The Wallace Center at Winrock International and the Business Alliance for
Local Living Economies (BALLE) present a pair of panels on our newly
released report Community Food Enterprise: Local Success in a Global
Marketplace (CFE). CFE, jointly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, *profiles 24 locally owned food
businesses in the U.S. and internationally* (see complete list of featured
enterprises<http://www.communityfoodenterprise.org/news-reports/cfe-event#featured-enterprises>
), and examines the financial, social, and environmental performance of each
enterprise. Analysis of these featured CFEs reveals milestones, challenges,
and strategies for replicating successes, and demonstrates how locally owned
food enterprises are an increasingly powerful driver for local economic
development.

*Join us for a morning panel focusing on our U.S. enterprises, or an
afternoon panel on our international enterprises*, at the Carnegie Endowment
in Washington DC (or via live online audio broadcast). Each one offers the
opportunity to hear from Michael Shuman, Project Co-Director and Lead
Author, featured enterprises, and other invited guests (see speaker and
event details below), as well as engage in conversation around the report's
key findings and implications. Both events are free and open to the public,
and will feature a catered reception provided by Eat and Smile Foods, a
DC-area catering company committed to fresh, locally sourced foods. *Each DC
event attendee will receive a free copy of the report*; space is limited, so
please register early.


*CFE MORNING PANEL: U.S. Enterprises
**9:00 am to 11:00 am ET
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Root Room*

   - Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, USDA
   - Michael Shuman, Project Co Director and Lead Author, CFE
   - Amy Emberling, Managing Partner, Zingerman's Community of Businesses
   - April Harrington, Treasurer, Oklahoma Food Cooperative
   - June Russell, Manager of Strategic Development and Regulations,
   Greenmarket


*CFE AFTERNOON PANEL: International Enterprises**
**2:00 pm to 4:00 pm ET**
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Root Room*

   - Mercy Karanja, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
   - Michael Shuman, Project Co Director and Lead Author, CFE
   - Sylvia Banda, Founder, Sylva Professional Catering Services Ltd
   - Nicholas Kafka, Founding Director, Teach a Man to Fish (sister
   organization of Fundacion Paraguaya)


*LEARN MORE ABOUT CFE!
**CommunityFoodEnteprise.org <http://www.communityfoodenterprise.org/>** |**
**BusinessWeek <http://bit.ly/6MgsRy>** | **Huffington
Post<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-h-shuman/community-food-enterprise_b_436026.html>
**
**
REGISTER! <http://communityfoodenterprise-comfood.eventbrite.com/>*









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Cari Beth Head*
Wallace Center at Winrock International
cbhead@winrock.org | 571.230.2969
wallacecenter.org | winrock.org



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