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Join us for an interactive forum where teams will present and discuss recommendations on key agricultural issues. We aim to find unanimous consensus and promising ideas for further refinement. Stand asides and voting will be conducted to gauge support levels for each recommendation.
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Agenda • 2:00 PM Roll and welcome (10 min.) • 2:10 PM Vote on Team 1 – Food Insecurity – Recommendations (20 min) • 2:30 PM Vote on Team 2 – Agricultural land protection and availability and next generation farming – Recommendations (20 min) • 2:50 PM Present and Discuss Team 3 – Alleviating barriers to small and medium scale farmers accessing markets, including institutional purchasing – Recommendations (10 min) • 3:00 PM Present and Discuss Team 4 – Infrastructure and rural economic development – Recommendations (30 min) • 3:30 PM Present and Discuss Team 5 – Impacts of Climate Change – Recommendations (30 min) • 4:00 PM Action items and Adjourn
The Forum’s Recommendations • We are seeking unanimous consensus with any number of stand asides • Through a thumbs up thumbs down – “I can live with it” – vote during the May and June meetings • Members can stand aside – accepting any number of stand asides • Recommendations that receive less than full support but at least two-thirds* support are included in the report as promising ideas that need further refinement • Ideas that receive less than two-thirds support are put in an appendix. • Each numbered recommendation will be put up for a vote. Petra will go down the membership list to take votes. • Members who can’t live with a recommendation or choose to stand aside will be asked for the headline (brief) reason why. • Will take a tally to determine what level of support was achieved. *2/3 of those present to vote that day
Team 1 Food insecurity
Team 2 Agricultural land protection and availability and next generation farming