Food Summit Results

Food summit Results

Develop a food-processing

enterprise to

make, market, and save

multi-cultural foods and

create jobs

Develop and execute a

statewide

sustainable, stakeholder

cooperative that benefits

growers, processors, distrib

utors and GSFB.

Food Summit Results

Identify Maine’s resources

and tap into them: year

round greenhouses, storage

facilities

Generate and centralize

networking and

partnership opportunities

Create County

Coordinators

Make food issue systems a priority

Better utilize existing programs

Support ethnic cultures and their food needs; connect

immigrant women with farming

Create a clear “food security” educational campaign

Support farmers and future farmers

Remove stigma from using food stamps, food pantries

And the Challenge...

Wild Card

Wild card: a low-probability high

impact event so large and/or which

arrives so fast that our social systems are

unable to effectively respond to it.

Potential wild cards that could affect our food supply.....

Flash Crash Calamity

70 % of wall street trades take place in milliseconds

Foreclosure TsunamiMay top 9 million in 2011, Goldman Sachs estimates

12 million

Next to housing, this is the

single most important issue in

the U.S. and certainly the

biggest risk to the U.S.

Economy.”

Meredith Whitney

BaltimoreChicago

San Francisco

CaliforniaNew Jersey

Honolulu

Unemployment17 -30%

National Debt$14,143, 074, 145,684.39 Trillion

Food commodity prices at record highs

China, and Russia are dropping the dollar

as trade vehicle

IMF recommends dropping dollar as

world trade currency

WaterOgallala Aquifer

Lake Mead

Only 2.6% of our water is freshwater. 97.4% is ocean.

2011 Frost in Mexico killed 80-100% of crops

Bees pollinate 90% of the worlds commercial crops

Species Extinction

Staple Crops are Failing

Summer droughts and heat

waves devastated Russia’s

wheat crop

2011 flooding in

California, Australia, Pakis

tan, Brazil

Extreme cold winter in

Europe and US 2010-2011

Flash MediaEgypt...a leaderless revolution

The WealthyAre giving less. . .

And what they do givedoesn’t go as far

When oil production goes into a

decline, it is going to be

a defining issue for humanity.

Robert L. Hirsch

Small Farms being Regulatedout of business

Peak Oil

2004

Oil Reached Peak

2004

Agriculture number one User of Fossil Fuel

Plowing

Fertilizing

Pesticides

Harvesting

Hauling

Processing

Every calorie of food we eat uses, at least,

10 calories of energy from oil.

Pimentel-Cornell

3/4 gallons of oil

7 pounds of grain

1 pound of beef = oil

2500 gallons of water

Oil = Food

24 Calories if foodthe food is Fish

What if gas Prices Rise to over $5.00, $8.00-$10.00 a

gallon?

$2500.00

Maine imports 80% of her food needs

Normalcy BiasSince something hasn’t happened before, it never will

Historically, we have been unable

to prepare for something we have never experienced

a perfect Storm

Dollar Decline

Erratic Weather

Peak Oil

Wild Card

Normalcy Bias

Crisis = Crucial Point (Opportunity)

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