Food systems @ UW-CIAS

www.cias.wisc.edu
Michelle Miller
Transportation for regional production
Climate change and food supply chains
Supply chains for emerging products
Food sovereignty and culinary identity
Transportation for regional food production
Achieving Scale Strategically: Understanding Freight Flows
in Regional Food. Supply Chains
www.wistrans.org/cfire/documents/FR_CFIRE0517.2.pdf

defining local
market
differentiation
logistics
first/last mile
scale &
ownership
distributional
capital
Key themes: Networking Across the Supply Chain
LaCrosse, February 2013
Transportation for regional food production
Wholesale Market Segmentation
wholesale buyer type
Red = institutional market Green = grocery Blue = restaurant
Meal service
Megabox
Fast food
Private cafeteria
Gourmet retail
White table cloth restaurants
Grow your own
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Transportation for regional food production
Supply chains for emerging products
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,
Heartlands 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
was founded in 2003, its story starts
over two and a half decades prior. In
the 1970s, researchers in the University
of NebraskaLincoln forestry
department had an interest in
developing alternative
Climate change and food supply chains
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
http://www.agdevjournal.com/volume-3-issue-4.html
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



Food sovereignty and culinary identity

http://www.agdevjournal.com/volume-3-issue-4.html

Power dynamic
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
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

Michael Bell
Steve Stevenson
Sara Tedeschi
Lelahni Skipper
Vanessa Herald
Lindsey Day-
Farnsworth*
Ann Pfeiffer*
Regina Hirsch
Diane Mayerfeld*
Jason Fischbach*