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Calendar
- September 9-10, 2009 Agricultural Climate Stewardship Strategy Meeting at the Glasbern Inn, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Review most promising carbon foot-printing methodologies and tools
- Learn how to increase quality and quanitity of agricultural carbon in carbon markets
- Visit high leverage pilot projects - existing and new - quanitfying GHG and soil carbon
- October 2009 IFAD meeting in Rome, Italy. The Sustainable Food Lab will co-host meeting in Rome to share learning and methods for a private and public sector value projects designed to improve livelihoods in developing countries. Exact dates and location TBD
- November 10-12, 2009 Shared Metrics in Action - near Boston
- Coordinated with SAI Platform, DMI Sustainability, Stewardship Index, Field to Market, ISEAL
- Objectives:
- Strategic support for metrics initiatives represented at retreat
- More pilots linked in a learning cluster
- Alignment where possible among metrics systems
- Industry buy-in to shared metrics
- Synergy among private sector and public sector metrics
- Published research and case studies of use of outcome metrics
Contact: hhamilton@sustainablefood.org
- March 15-19 2010 Membership Meeting Sustainable Food Lab members will meet to dig deeply into pilot projects and share projections of industry-wide developments. Topics will include carbon quantification and markets, supply chains from developing countries, regional sourcing, and alignment among outcome metrics. Learning journeys will precede the plenary. Costa Rica
Past Events
- June 16, 23, 25, 2009 crop-level GHG emissions estimators Hosted by the Sustainable Food Lab in collaboration with the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops (SISC) and the Innovation Center for US Dairy
- Growing a 21st Century Agricultural Revolution, March 18-20 2009. Convened by the Sustainable Food Lab, SAI Platform and the Keystone Center’s Farm to Market Initiative.
- Business Coalition Meeting, December, 2008 hosted by Sodexho in Washington DC
- Sustainable Food Lab Summit, September, 2008
- China Learning Journey, April, 2008
- Value Chain Clinic - June, 2008
- Business Coalition Meeting, hosted by General Mills, December, 2007
- CIAA & SAI Platform Conference on Sustainable Agriculture, November, 2007, Brussels, Belgium
- The Role of Public and Institutional Food in Promoting Sustainable Rural Development, Seville, Spain, November, 2007
- Green Mountain Coffee Key Performance Indicators Project Summit, November, 2007
- Sustainable Food Lab Meeting, October, 2007 Antigua, Guatemala (Learning Journeys lasting 2-7 days preceded this meeting)
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