{"id":73831,"date":"2018-01-29T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T01:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=73831"},"modified":"2020-03-05T15:13:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:13:32","slug":"2018-sustainable-ag-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/29\/2018-sustainable-ag-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> West O\u02bbahu hosting sustainable ag conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_73830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73830\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/west-oahu-sustainable-garden.jpg\" alt=\"student working in a garden\" width=\"300\" height=\"430\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/west-oahu-sustainable-garden.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/west-oahu-sustainable-garden-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>&#8216;s Sustainability Community Food Systems course.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About 400 educators, administrators, graduate and undergraduate students and others in involved in farmer training in North America are expected to attend a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sustainability\/saea-2018\/\">sustainable agriculture conference<\/a> at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> this summer. The conference will highlight models of higher education that represent indigenous knowledge, engage critical political-ecological analysis and train future generations to achieve food system resilience and equity.<\/p>\n<p>Through presentations, workshops, field trips and hands-on activities, participants will share their theories, practices and visions for integrating indigenous knowledge, decolonization and socio-ecological resilience into post-secondary agroecology and food systems training.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Albie Miles<\/strong>, assistant professor of Sustainable Community Food Systems Program at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>, will serve as co-coordinator and host for the 2018 National Sustainable Agriculture Education Association conference July 27&#8211;29, 2018.<\/p>\n<h2>Call for proposals<\/h2>\n<p>The conference invites participants from across the food system, including academic scholars, students, farmers, cooks, community organizers, land\/resource managers and other professionals. Presenters will represent universities, colleges, farmer training organizations and a range of professional and civil society organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sustainability\/saea18-call-for-proposals\/\">request for conference proposals<\/a> for the event are due February 5, 2018. The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSePNOoYC5GkP49wvAR-aMyLowYfuVlzfcfkAFFJsERO4eURoQ\/viewform\">online application form is available on the conference website<\/a>. Organizers are inviting proposals for presentations, panel discussions and workshops in three focal areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indigenous knowledge, power and pedagogy<\/li>\n<li>Decolonizing the food system: Feeding ourselves and others through higher education<\/li>\n<li>Living traditions, living economies: Toward self-determination, resilience and equity in the food system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The conference will be co-hosted by the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> System <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sustainability\/\">Office of Sustainability<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainableaged.org\/\">Sustainable Agriculture Education Association<\/a> (SAEA), a group of scholars that champion interdisciplinary agroecology and sustainable food systems programming in higher education.<\/p>\n<p>The <span aria-label=\u201cHoola ainoa o mailikukahi\u201d>Ho&#699;\u014dla &#699;\u0100ina O M\u0101&#699;ilik\u016bkahi<\/span> Youth Food Sovereignty Congress will run in parallel with the <abbr title=\"Sustainable Agriculture Education Association\">SAEA<\/abbr> Conference and is providing a platform from which community-oriented, intergenerational and cultural approaches to building a sustainable food system are honored, cultivated and launched.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Leila Wai Shimokawa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conference will highlight models of higher education that represent indigenous knowledge, engage critical political-ecological analysis and train future generations to achieve food system resilience and equity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[222,73,861,59],"class_list":["post-73831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-agriculture","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainable-community-food-systems","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73831"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112530,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73831\/revisions\/112530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}