Food systems @ UW-CIAS
www.cias.wisc.edu
Michelle Miller
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Transportation for regional production
Climate change and food supply chains
Supply chains for emerging products
Food sovereignty and culinary identity
Achieving Scale Strategically: Understanding Freight Flows
in Regional Food. Supply Chains
www.wistrans.org/cfire/documents/FR_CFIRE0517.2.pdf
Transportation for regional food production
Key themes: Networking Across the Supply Chain
LaCrosse, February 2013
distributional
capital
scale &
ownership
defining local
market
differentiation
first/last mile
logistics
Transportation for regional food production
Wholesale Market Segmentation
Grow your own
resources
White table cloth restaurants
Gourmet retail
Private cafeteria
Fast food
Meal service
Megabox
wholesale buyer type
Red = institutional market
Green = grocery
Blue = restaurant
Transportation for regional food production
Heartland Nuts ‘N More
Cooperatively 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
Supply chains for emerging products
http://www.agdevjournal.com/volume-3-issue-4.html
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
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
Climate change and food supply chains
http://www.agdevjournal.com/volume-3-issue-4.html
Food sovereignty and culinary identity
Power dynamic
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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
Michael Bell
Steve Stevenson
Sara Tedeschi
Lelahni Skipper
Vanessa Herald
Lindsey DayFarnsworth*
Ann Pfeiffer*
Regina Hirsch
Diane Mayerfeld*
Jason Fischbach*
– 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