Call for Proposals: Food Systems and Planning

Posted by on August 20, 2010

Proposals are now being accepted online for the American Planning Association’s 2011 National Planning Conference in Boston, April 9-12.

APA’s Food Interest Group (FIG) invites you to submit a proposal for a session, training workshop, poster, facilitated discussion, or technology showcase related to at least one of the following topics:

* Food systems planning and sustainability
* Food systems planning and public health
* Food systems planning and economic development
* Regional food systems planning and rural-urban linkages

All proposals must be submitted online by August 24, 2010.

For more information and instructions on how to submit a proposal, please visit http://www.planning.org/conference/proposals.htm. For information about food systems planning and APA’s Sustaining Places Initiative, visit http://www.planning.org/nationalcenters/health/food.htm and http://www.planning.org/sustainingplaces/.

Please distribute this information to anyone you think would have an interest in submitting a proposal related to food systems planning for the 2011 conference.

(Note: Proposals must be submitted by an APA member; however non-APA members are welcome to be speakers and included in session, workshop, and facilitated discussion proposals.)