Food and Farm Policy in the United States: Building the Economy and National Security with Public Health
Michael Hamm
Thursday, 23 Feb 2012 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Michael Hamm is the C. S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at Michigan State University, where his work focuses on developing sustainable community and regional food systems from the producer to the consumer. It encompasses such areas as policy development, small-scale farm viability, equity in food access, and institutional markets. Hamm was previously on the faculty at Rutgers University, where he served as Dean of Academic and Student Programs at Cook College. While at Rutgers he was cofounder and director of the New Jersey Urban Ecology Program, facilitator for the New Jersey Cooperative Gleaning Network and the founding director of the Cook Student Organic Farm. He earned his PhD at the University of Minnesota. The 2011-12 Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair in Human Sciences.Cosponsored By:
- College of Human Sciences
- Food Science and Human Nutrition
- Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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