Philip Ackerman-Leist author of PCI’s new Community Resilience Guide: Rebuilding the Foodshed was interviewed in the UNC student paper the Daily Tar Heel.

From the interview:

DTH: What do you hope to accomplish from talking to people and writing books about this issue?

PAL: We have to think harder, longer, with a broader diversity of players in order to really rebuild the community food systems.

Hopefully it’s shedding light on some of the models from around the country and what’s worked and what hasn’t worked, and those models are thinking complexly about food systems.

There is one other piece that I think is really important about all of this that I tried to put forward in the book, and that is really unveiling some of the things that we don’t think about often enough in local food conversation.

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