Session facilitator: Virginia Morgan
Lunch
Optional in-depth trainingThe EDEN Strengthening Community Agrosecurity Planning (SCAP) project is developing 3-day workshops to enable local Extension personnel and other community partners to: build capacity to handle agriculture issues during an emergency or disaster, improve networking among stakeholders who can plan for and respond to emergencies, and establish or enhance agrosecurity components within existing local emergency operations plans. These pilot workshops begin in January and the project should be complete by late spring of 2009. This presentation will present an overview of the topics that will be covered in the SCAP pilot workshops, including a community vulnerability assessment; identification of capabilities, tasks, and resources; sustainability issues; and models for development of local standard operating procedures and emergency support functions for agricultural disasters at the local level.