Strengthening Agriculture’s Infrastructure
Topics to be included:
- Co-operatives and other producer partnerships
- Value-added food processing
- Local and regional marketing and distribution
- Barriers to regional supply chains
- Public sectors’ response to infrastructure gaps
The conference will prepare Western region agriculture for sustainably processing, marketing and distributing high quality food in systems that:
- Draw consumers closer to food producers;
- Increase economic viability of food producers of all sizes;
- Expand the marketplace for sustainably produced food;
- Increase community food and security;
- Assure abundance in the face of increasing fossil fuel costs.
The Western SARE Administrative Council is organizing this conference in response to the participants in our Subregional Conferences listing gaps and barriers in agriculture infrastructure as a high need to be addressed in our region for continued economic viability in the 21st Century.
