The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (NESAWG)’s It Takes a Region Conference brings together farm and food systems practitioners across the 12-state Northeast region to learn, debate, collaborate, and innovate solutions to critical food systems issues. The 2016 conference is November 10-12 at the Hartford Hilton in Hartford, CT.
This year’s theme: Tackling Wicked Problems in Food Systems
Wicked problems are not any old problems that just won’t go away. They are longstanding, complex, and difficult to define. In our collective work towards food system sustainability and justice, we constantly encounter wicked problems: food insecurity, farm viability, and farmworker exploitation to name a few. While we cannot expect immediate solutions, we must collaborate across our movement to develop feasible, long-term approaches to these intractable issues.
