Why the Food Lab?

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September 12-13, 2011 

FMI/GMA Sustainability Summit, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA 


October 12-13, 2011 

James BeardSustainability on the Table: How Money and Media Influence the Way America Eats.  New York City, New York, USA

Jan Kees Vis, Sheri Flies, and Craig Watson will be honored with Leadership Awards for being "game-changing pioneers who have inspired positive action to improve our country's food system."


October 13-14, 2011

Food Service Roundtable. New York City, New York

 


October 17-18, 2011

Connecting Smallholders to Modern Markets.  

Ethiopian Learning Journey for New Business Models and Oxfam GB partners

 

October 26-27, 2011 

World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting
People, Planet, Profit: Envisioning the Future of Cocoa in Africa.  Accra, Ghana





Past Events

June 26-30, 2011
Sustainable Food Lab Member Summit, Portland, Oregon, USA 

January 17, 18 2011

Cool Tool/Global Agriculture Climate Assessement
Sponsor meeting, Cambridge, UK


May 10-12, 2010 The Art of Sustainable Agriculture

Brussels.  Jointly organized by Sustainable Food Lab, SAI, and CIAA (Confederation of the Food and Beverages Industries of the EU).  Building on common metrics work and taking the Ag Revolution Conference toward more concrete tools, pilots and deliverables.

March 14-19 2010 SFL Leadership Summit Report here
Sustainable Food Lab members and partners dug deeply into pilot projects and shared projections of industry-wide developments.  Topics included carbon quantification and markets, supply chains from developing countries, regional sourcing, and alignment among outcome metrics.  Learning journeys preceded the plenary.  

January 18-22, 2010 New Business Model Team, Ghana.  A meeting of SFL members and partners working on the Bill and Melinda Gates projects in Africa.

January 12, 2010 New England Sustainable Dairy Collaboration, Hartland, VT  A meeting of SFL members and partners including Ben & Jerry's, Cabot, Stonyfield, UVM, Manomet

November 10-12, 2009Shared Metrics in Action Coordinated with SAI Platform, DMI Sustainability, Stewardship Index, Field to Market, ISEAL.

September 8-10, 2009Agricultural Climate Stewardship Strategy Meeting Report, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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

CIAA & SAI Platform Conference on Sustainable Agriculture
, November, 2007, Brussels, Belgium

Sustainable Food Lab Meeting
, October, 2007 Antigua, Guatemala (Learning Journeys lasting 2-7 days preceded this meeting