Spearheading the Dialogue in Food Systems Leadership
with Brenda Schoepp
Our Vision
We will engage with you in diverse conversations around agriculture and food leadership. We will empower you to embrace your talents and encourage you to create self-directed, resilient, regenerative, ecologically balanced outcomes. We commit to inclusion, authenticity and the preservation of dignity at all times.
Why
We believe that each unique challenge and each solution belongs to those who live it.
We appreciate agriculture and food as the global ecological, cultural, economic, social, community, health and justice connectors.
We know that your contribution to the discussion brings value, diversity of thought, and fosters creative ways of learning, knowing and doing.
Recent Blog Posts
- Questions we should be asking. Part 2Protectionism vs Collaboration History points to a fragmented past in agriculture among commodities. A time in which the sectors had a focus to compete for market share and thoughts of collaborative efforts were non- existent. It’s tough to put together agricultural policy with so many bulls in the pen and it’s tougher yet to sell a nation to ready buyers should commodities pit against each other at the bargaining table. Keeping that linear mindset is certain to tip the cart in favor of the competition – outside of our borders. We may want to consider what happens when we engage… Read more: Questions we should be asking. Part 2
- Questions we should be asking….Great conversations and ultimately the nurturing of behavioural change, starts with questions. The old models of information transfer in which the authoritative voice dictates direction, are quickly being replaced by those of curious dialogue. In the field of agriculture, there are a plethora of unanswered questions – and yet we tend to lean on those fenceposts that look familiar and still be appear to holding the wires or boards in place. Unseen is the instability below the ground. Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of wisdom absorbed over a life time – even by a fence post –… Read more: Questions we should be asking….