Events

You are invited to a unique opportunity to strengthen your leadership abilities and your organization's effectiveness, and explore ways to work effectively with other organizations.  We hope you can join us!

Cultivating Leadership for a Changing Agriculture:  Shared Leadership I

Date:   November 15-18, 2003
Location:  Hilltop House Hotel, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia 

Application Due:  September 26, 2003

This program will help leaders build effective organizations in a changing world, engage new people with diverse perspectives and create successful partnerships. This program will support participating board members and executive staff in developing the abilities they need to effectively lead and govern their groups.

Participants in this three-day Shared Leadership I Workshop will:

·  Enhance their personal leadership skills
·  Work with their leadership team to assess and strengthen their organization
·  Receive follow-up coaching and consulting assistance 
·  Be eligible to participate in the Shared Leadership II Workshop

This workshop is part of Cultivating Leadership for a Changing Agriculture, a three-year program funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to strengthen the capacity of sustainable agriculture organizations and institutes in universities and agriculturally based scientific societies.  Between 2002 and 2005, four Shared Leadership I workshops and three Shared Leadership II workshops will be offered.  

Who should participate_ 

Eight organizations will be selected from sustainable agriculture organizations, university-based institutes of sustainable agriculture, and agriculturally based scientific societies to participate in this workshop.  A team of three leaders from each organization is required.  Your team would consist of the executive director, a current strong leader or board member, and an emerging leader.  

How much will it cost_  

The cost for each organization will be $800, which includes workshop participation and follow-up coaching and consultation, lodging and meals.  Limited scholarships may also be available.  All registration fees are nonrefundable. 
                  
How can I apply or learn more about the program_  

Please visit our website to request more detailed information and an application (www.cultivateleaders.org/programs/sl1.shtm).  You may also contact us at  (or reply to this message) to request the information and application by e-mail.

Sponsor Organizations

The Institute for Conservation Leadership (ICL) empowers leaders and strengthens groups that protect and conserve the Earth's environment. They do this by helping leaders improve their leadership skills, by building connections between groups with similar goals, and by supporting these groups' progress with training, consulting and facilitation.  Further information is available at their website:  www.icl.org.

The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) is an international consortium of 37 scientific and professional societies in agriculture, food, and related sciences.  Its mission is to identify food and fiber, environmental and other agricultural issues and to interpret related scientific research information for legislators, regulators, and the media for use in public policy decision-making.  More information is available at their website:  www.cast-science.org.

Brian lewis
Institute for Conservation Leadership
Cultivating Leadership for a Changing Agriculture
13 S. Willson Avenue
Suite 9
Bozeman, MT  59715
(406) 582-1838 ext. 1

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Mid-Atlantic Food & Farm Coalition
Seeks Partner For 5th Annual Future of Our Food & Farms Summit
December 4 - 5, 2003

The Mid-Atlantic Food and Farm Coalition seeks proposals for a partner for a
joint conference to be held on December 4 and 5, 2003. The Summit's purpose
is to promote agriculture, learn about trends in food distribution and find
ways to promote healthy eating and reduce hunger in the Mid-Atlantic region.
The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working group (NESAWG) partnered with
the Future of Our Food and Farms Summit in 2002 for a joint conference held
in Wilmington, Delaware.

If your organization is involved in food, farming, nutrition and/or hunger
issues and is interested in partnering with us for the 2003 Future of Our
Food and Farms Summit, please contact us by January 17th via email at
mariavhm_____4___aol.com or call 610-530-2584. We are looking for partner
organizations who hold meetings or conferences in the Mid-Atlantic and/or
Northeast regions.

Maria van Hekken
The Mid-Atlantic Food and Farm Coalition
Future of Our Food and Farms Summit
http://www.ibiblio.org/farming-connection/fffconf/
http://www.foodfarm.org
http://www.thefoodtrust.org/
1201 Chestnut Street, 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
610-530-2584
3760 Manchester Road (home office)
Allentown, PA 18104-2240
610-530-2584
610-530-2586 fax

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FAIR TRADE:

Finding sustainable models in agriculture and trade for People and the Planet

HAVANA, CUBA

Oct. 18 – 27, 2003

WHY JOIN THIS DELEGATION

€ Cuba has been selected for special recognition by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) because of the extraordinary progress it has made during the last decade in creating model programs in sustainable development.

€ In 1999 the Cuban Association of Organic Agriculture received the alternative Nobel Prize known as the “Right Livelihood” Award for its comprehensive conversion from chemical to organic agriculture.

€ The delegation is a unique opportunity to gain an understanding of Cuba’s environmental policies and programs; the significance of the Cuban model to other countries of the developing world; and how professionals from the developed world can work together with their Cuban counterparts to promote sustainability world wide.

… Additionally, the delegation will examine the issue of fair trade and international markets for organic products. Cuban organic sugar, chocolate and coffee (also shade grown) will be topics of discussion and site visits.

ACTIVITIES DURING THE PROGRAM

… University of Havana School of Agriculture
… Cuba's Association of Organic Agriculture
… Viñales Valley reforestation projects and shade grown, organic coffee production
… Urban organic gardens and model "one hectare" garden
… Visits to discuss Cuba’s system of Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
… Institute for the Investigation of Tropical Agriculture (INIFAT), the second oldest
agricultural institute in Latin America
… Permaculture design through the Foundation for Nature and Humanity
… Large organic agriculture cooperative
€ Vermiculture site in Pinar del Rio, organic medicinal herb institute and other sites of interest
… Las Terrazas intentional community and Sierra Rosario Bioreserve
… PROVINCE VISIT: Either Cienfuegos (rural permaculture) or Baracoa, Guantanamo
(organic chocolate)

HOW TO GET THERE

Participants will leave from Miami, Florida on October 18 for the flight to Havana. Travel arrangements will be made by Global Exchange Reality Tours, a licensed Cuba travel service provider with fourteen years experience organizing educational Cuba tours. As professionals and/or participants on an educational trip, you will be fully licensed to participate in this delegation.

The cost of the delegation will be $2,100. This includes round-trip airfare from Miami to Havana; two meals per day; accommodation at a three star hotel; full program with translators and tour guides; all in-country programmed transportation; attention to participants’ individual professional requests; background reading materials; and a one-year membership to Global Exchange.

You can print out an application form from:
http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/forms.html

WHO WE ARE

Global Exchange is a non-profit research, education, and action center dedicated to promoting people-to-people ties around the world. Since our founding in 1988, we have been striving to increase global awareness among the US public while building international partnerships around the world.

Global Exchange has been involved in sustainable development projects in Cuba for many years. We have been continually impressed, as have participants on the many previous delegations, with Cuba’s unique and ever broadening approach to meeting its food, medicine, and energy needs in an integrated and sustainable way.

More about Global Exchange: http://www.globalexchange.org

Eco Cuba Exchange is a program within the Cuba Department of Global Exchange. We work to develop cooperative relationships, shared learning and friendly ties among scientists, professionals, students and organizations in the US and in Cuba who have a common interest in environmental protection and in sustainable human and resource development. This is seen as but one of many strategies to not only normalize relations between our two countries, but also to promote cooperation in solving problems common to all of humanity and to the planet.

We invite you to become involved in current and future interchange with our Cuban ecological counterparts through our Eco Cuba Exchange program. We promote exchanges with the large community of specialists in Cuba who are developing policies, strategies and projects in sustainable development. The possibility exists for long term U.S.- Cuba exchanges of great depth and breadth in these fields, and for the promotion of peaceful, productive and important exchange between our peoples. We welcome you to join us in this effort.

Articles on Sustainable Development in Cuba:
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/cuba/sustainable/index.html