*13th Annual Community Food Security Coalition Conference *

*Dates: *October 10-13, 2009* *

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*Place: *Polk County Convention Center, Des Moines, Iowa

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*Press Contacts: *Andy Fisher, Executive Director, (503) 954-2970, 
[log in to unmask]; Lynn Fallon, Iowa Outreach Committee Chair, (515) 
201-9405, [log in to unmask]

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*Website: */www.communityfoodconference.org/* *

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The Community Food Security Coalition is a non-profit, North American 
organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and 
regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and 
culturally appropriate food for all people at all times. We seek to 
develop self-reliance among all communities in obtaining their food and 
to create a system of growing, manufacturing, processing, making 
available, and selling food that is regionally based.

The Community Food Security Coalition�s annual conference is the 
nation�s primary food systems networking and educational event. More 
than 700 participants will gather in Des Moines for four days of 
presentations, workshops, networking opportunities, local foods, and a 
variety of field trips around the state.

The 2009 conference will include a special one-day gathering of state 
and local food policy council organizers and practitioners, as well as 
plenary sessions on building networks for food system change, labor and 
immigration policy, and strategies for change of the industrial food 
system. Also featured will be 50 workshops, a food-film festival, six 
field trips, the first annual Food Sovereignty Prize Award presentation, 
business meetings, structured networking time, lunch-and-learns, and a 
trade show.

Des Moines hosts multiple food and agriculture events the week of 
October 10. Overlapping the Community Food Security Coalition Conference 
is the Iowa Hunger Summit on October 13 followed by the 2009 World Food 
Prize �Borlaug Dialogue� symposium on October 14-16. The theme of the 
Borlaug Dialogue is �Food, Agriculture, and National Security in a 
Globalized World,� and several hundred global leaders from more than 65 
countries are expected to attend. For more information go to 
www.worldfoodprize.org.

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