For the first breakout session of the day, I had the opportunity to attend the “Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture” session, with speakers Mark Bomford, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, and Amy Kalafa, Independent Filmmaker and Author (including her work on the broken school food system in America with “Two Angry Moms” Fifteen or so graduate students, undergraduate […]
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