Food systems @ UW-CIASwww.cias.wisc.edu

Michelle Miller • Transportation for regional production• Climate change and food supply chains• Supply chains for emerging products• Food sovereignty and culinary identity

Transportation for regional food production

Achieving Scale Strategically: Understanding Freight Flows in Regional Food. Supply Chains www.wistrans.org/cfire/documents/FR_CFIRE0517.2.pdf

defining local

market dif -ferentiation

logisticsfirst/last mile

scale & ownership

distribu-tional cap-

italKey themes: Networking Across the Supply Chain

LaCrosse, February 2013

Transportation for regional food production

Wholesale Market Segmentation

wholesale buyer typeRed = institutional market Green = grocery Blue = restaurant

Meal serviceMegabox

Fast food

Private cafeteria

Gourmet retail

White table cloth restaurants

Grow your own

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Transportation for regional food production

Supply chains for emerging products

Heartland Nuts ‘N MoreCooperatively marketing improved varieties Overview Heartland Nuts ‘N More is a 35-member formally incorporated cooperative headquartered in Valparaiso, Nebraska. The co-op produces, processes and markets pecans and black walnuts from growers in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. Relying on over thirty years of research and experimentation, Heartland’s focus has been on improving nut varieties and finding high-quality cultivars; their mission statement is “To produce and harvest the best-tasting, premium-quality orchard-grown tree nuts, including black walnuts and Northern pecans.” History While Heartland Nuts ‘N More was founded in 2003, its story starts over two and a half decades prior. In the 1970s, researchers in the University of Nebraska—Lincoln forestry department had an interest in developing alternative ……

Climate change and food supply chains

Proposals for future work: • Estimating future demands on agricultural freight transport

in the Upper Midwest due to climate change• Climate change and risk in perennial farming systems:

Resiliency planning for perennial fruit production in the Upper Midwest

http://www.agdevjournal.com/volume-3-issue-4.html

Climate change and food supply chains

Participatory research needs for climate / food systems

• How do we optimize resilience? • Focus on food, not agriculture – proteins, fruits and vegetables.• Production bio-region as the “whole under management” –what is

sustainable?• Production bio-regions build economic capacity by selling metro

markets high-value products – asset analysis / “low hanging fruit”• Investigate ways to equitably share risks across food supply chains,

create supply webs• ID the logistical partners and communities impacted and involve

them from the outset• Anticipate change and use it to our advantage

Food sovereignty and culinary identity

http://www.agdevjournal.com/volume-3-issue-4.html

Power dynamic City dwellers are the market. Rural landscapes and communities produce food. Is the relationship equitable?

Kenneth Lynch (2005) “Introduction & Chapter One: Understanding the rural-urban interface” from Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World Richard Blaustein (2008)

Food sovereignty and culinary identity

• Farm2School Wisconsin – Harvest Medley– Training & technical assistance– Transform Wisconsin /obesity

prevention• Farm2School Great Lakes • Urban agriculture & food access• Agriculture of the Middle• Livestock and food systems in

South Africa• Food systems in Burma• Farm labor issues

Michael BellSteve StevensonSara TedeschiLelahni SkipperVanessa HeraldLindsey Day-Farnsworth*Ann Pfeiffer*Regina HirschDiane Mayerfeld*Jason Fischbach*