Food insecurity is prevalent and is only expected to get worse due to the effects of climate change. If we are to use CPS to help alleviate food insecurity, data must be gathered from a diverse set of perspectives. By using simulations, we can gain new perspectives and be better prepared to formulate challenges and discover these crucial solutions. Each person will be given a 1-acre plot – represented with paper cut outs – with the vision of feeding 500 children.
What will your challenge statement be? How can you turn resistors into assisters in order to succeed? A mindset of deliberate creativity will be crucial to success. Prepare to leave with the insights of a new perspective and fresh ideas on how you can be a part of the solution for food insecurity.
What will you learn or experience as a result of this program or session?- Participants will learn about farming and our food supply.
- Participants will learn what can affect the strengths and weaknesses of a food system.
- Participants will explore how small-scale farming can help during times of tribulation.
How might the content of this program or session change your perceptions, habits, ways of working, or view on the world?- Participants will gain more understanding and for a respect of how food is produced.
- Participants will look at the food they consume in a light of higher empathy.
- Participants will consider how they are a part of agricultural solutions and better systems.
How might you apply what you learn or experience in this program or session?- Participants will have new skills for researching what they may be able to grow or raise in their home environment and what challenges they may face.
- Participants will be more informed as to the possible pro’s and con’s of producing the products they are choosing to buy.
- Participants will be empowered to talk to and ask more informed questions of local food producers.
- Participants will have more data and solutions should their community experience a sudden food shortage.
