Food, Farms, Fish and Finance Forum: feat. Michael Shuman Keynote Lecture

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Author: Josie Di Felice

Posted: May 8, 2013

Categories: Events / Food in the News / GoodFoodBites

Our Food, Farms, Fish and Finance forum is just over two weeks away! Join us as we explore the delicious, diverse and delicate potential for social finance and impact investing in our food system. Have you registered yet? If you can’t make it, register to watch a live webcast of Saturday’s panel discussion and The Fishbowl: A focus on farms and fish initiatives.

Michael Shuman will be delivering the keynote lecture, Local Dollars, Local Sense:  12 Cutting-Edge Tools to Finance the Local Food Revolution”, as part of the forum on Saturday, May 25, at 7 p.m. at Innis Town Hall.

Michael is director of research for Cutting Edge Capital, and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. He is a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and author of The Small Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition.

The forum, over Saturday, May 25 & Sunday, May 26, will connect social finance leaders with investors and entrepreneurs to build a stronger food economy and sustainable food system. This is an action-oriented forum with opportunities to learn from leaders in the field and participate in strategic conversations to move key issues forward.

For more information and registration please visit our website here, and join the Facebook event. You may also click on the attached poster.