It Takes a Region

*Pre-conference will be located at City Hall (280 Grove St, Jersey City, NJ 07302) Caucus Room. IDs required to get into City Hall.

Explore the principles and practices of value chain exploration and construction in the food and agriculture sector.  In this highly interactive workshop, we will be exploring what value chains are and how they apply to community oriented work, especially in rural areas where social capital might be strong, but economies are not.  We will talk about how food value chains have been developed in other parts of the country and what some of the successes and outcomes have been.  During the workshop, participants will have an opportunity to apply value chain tools to their own projects, get feedback from peers, and from the workshop presenter, using a value chain mapping exercise. We will also have an opportunity to consider the desired impacts from value chain work.