Join the Alaska Food Policy Council for a working lunch session on food transportation in Alaska.
The first in our 2021 series on Alaska food systems issues, the Alaska Food Policy Council invites you to attend this hour and a half presentation and working session on food transportation in Alaska. We will kick off with a background presentation on food transport state-of-affairs and challenges in the state, followed by an expert panel. The session will end with an active breakout session to gather feedback and thoughts from the greater Alaskan community on the issues presented. Feedback will then be aggregated and distributed to the group after the session has ended. Join us to learn and discuss this matter, which is so critical to communities across the state.
We will open up with a general overview of food system transportation conditions in Alaska, followed by a panelist discussion, then move on to sector-specific break-out room discussions.
Confirmed speakers include:
Chelsea Ward-Walker, Anchorage Muni transport expert
Sandra Harbanuk - Alaska WIC
Walter Pickett - AC Stores
Kyla Byers - Arctic Harvest Deliveries
Emily Garrity (pre-recorded) - Twitter Creek Gardens
More guests TBA
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“... the system operates an aging ferry fleet that is costly to maintain and operate, poorly matched to ferry route needs, with limited flexibility to adjust to changing circumstances”
- October 2020, Alaska Marine Highway Reshaping Work Group report to the Governor
“The most successful of these efforts have often been small in scale. All would be strengthened if Alaska created lasting infrastructure to support local foods. This is a necessity since food transportation routes have been an afterthought in state planning— at first these routes were dictated by the mining industry, and now by public investment in highways, railroads, and airports.”
- September 2018, Potential Infrastructure Investments for Alaska-Grown Food,
report commissioned by AFPC
“The Postal Service cannot afford to subsidize a service that has expanded beyond its original purpose and does not appear essential to the Postal Service’s mission to bind the nation together through the provision of reliable, affordable, universal mail service,”
- November 2011 Alaska Bypass: Beyond Its Original Purpose, a report by USPS
