 | The Good Food Revolution
Will Allen - Growing Power, Inc.
In the face of financial challenges and daunting odds, Will Allen built the country’s pre-eminent urban farm – a food and educational center that now produces enough vegetables and fish year-round to feed thousands of people. Today, Growing Power helps develop community food systems across the country.
Visit www.growingpower.org for more information.
Speaker bio:
Click here to show speaker bio.| The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen has been everything from a professional basketball player to a corporate sales leader. A longtime farmer, he’s recognized as among the pre-eminent thinkers of our time on agriculture and food policy. He is the founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc., a farm and community food center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and he’s widely considered the leading authority in the expanding field of urban agriculture. At Growing Power and in community food projects across the nation and around the world, Allen promotes the belief that all people, regardless of their economic circumstances, should have access to fresh, safe, affordable and nutritious foods at all times. Using methods he has developed over a lifetime, Allen trains community members to become community farmers, assuring them a secure source of good food without regard to political or economic forces. In 2008, Allen received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius grant" for his efforts to promote urban sustainable food systems. In 2010, Allen joined Michelle Obama as she launched the White House’s “Let’s Move” campaign to address issues affecting American youth and the risk of obesity. Later that year he was recognized as one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. Since then, Allen has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the James Beard Award in 2011 and the NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award in 2012. |
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