Welcome to Ag Innovations Network
Food and food production is the cornerstone of civilization. How we produce, distribute, and consume food reflect both what works and what is failing in our modern world.
Ag Innovations Network’s mission is to support the emergence of a new food system that reflects our best hopes and dreams for the future. Our work is focused on facilitating the critical dialogues that will help bring this new food system into reality.
We invite you to learn more about our work, our team, and our vision.
AIN Facilitates the California Ag Vision Process
June 2009 Ag Innovations Network has partnered with the State Board of Food and Agriculture and American Farmland Trust to serve as the facilitator for the next step in developing California’s Ag Vision for 2030. We will be facilitating a series of meetings with a broad range of invited stakeholders to develop short-term recommendations on how to continue to build a food system in California that best serves people, communities, and producers.
Members of the California Ag Vision process have access to the project’s on-line collaboration site. Public information about the process is available at the American Farmland Trust site.
The first report from this process is expected in late fall 2009.
AIN Joins Forces with the Sustainable Food Lab
January 2009 Two leaders in the effort to find win-win solutions to moving the global food system to a more economically sound, environmentally friendly, and socially equitable footing have joined forces. Ag Innovations Network, which has been leading dialogues and igniting change for a better food system for California since 2000 and the Sustainable Food Lab, a leader in working with major companies in the global food system to inspire and support implementation of sustainability initiatives are now working together as a single organization.
The newly formed Alliance hopes to be of even greater service to the growing efforts to build a food system that delivers better results for farmers, workers, companies, and the environment. Ag Innovations Network will be bringing its expertise in creating effective multi-stakeholder collaborations and its deep experience in California agriculture to the Sustainable Food Lab’s projects and members. The Sustainable Food Lab will be bringing its expertise in sustainable supply chains, climate change, and most importantly knowledge of the unique challenges faced by the largest companies in the food industry to Ag Innovations Network.
Joseph McIntyre will continue to serve as the executive director of Ag Innovations Network, which becomes the fiscal sponsor and legal umbrella for the joint effort. Hal Hamilton and Don Seville continue in their roles as co-directors of the Sustainable Food Lab. The organization will maintain offices in Santa Rosa, California and White River Junction, Vermont.
Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture
September 2008 Over Labor Day weekend, Ag Innovations Network was actively involved in Slow Food Nation. This event is a watershed in American food systems work, the largest ever gathering of people to celebrate food as the cornerstone of a healthy society. It is also the largest gathering of leaders who are concerned about the direction of American food system policy and the health of American consumers.