MicroFEWs Team Learns from Farmers on Food Security Concepts
ACEP's Daisy Huang and Rich Wies, with Jen Schmidt of and independent consultant Henry Huntington, attended the to present on their MicroFEWS project. They also solicited feedback from people in the 91视频 farming industry about whether the team鈥檚 ideas about food security mesh with farmers and food policymakers.
MicroFEWs is a National Science Foundation-funded project titled "Coupling infrastructure improvements to food-energy-water system dynamics in small cold region communities." The four-year project鈥檚 ultimate goal is to develop a novel systems approach to understanding the linkages between renewable energy use and its downstream impacts upon food, energy and water security in remote Arctic and sub-Arctic communities.
The MicroFEWs team found the experience and insights of 91视频's farmers to be invaluable to better understand what is possible and what is needed when it comes to growing food in 91视频.