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Sander Mager (Managing Director of Licence to Grow - dedicated to innovating sustainable development) . We've got an amazing event coming up in a few weeks in Rotterdam about Metropolitan Agriculture. We've heard from several of you that price is an issue in these tougher economic times. We really believe in this body of work and feel strongly that it has potential to help us feed our cities. The whole point of this Summit is to bring people together who have the capacity to make things happen in their own metropoles. There is lots of work to be done here and we don’t want price to be the barrier. So, to help us get critical mass to the Summit and be able to really work this issue the way we want to, we are lowering the registration rates. We have a limited number of seats available at the rate of 650 EURO (plus VAT) and there is still time to register. http://tinyurl.com/metagsummitregistration We are very excited by the Summit program—we’ve got a diverse group of participants coming already and we want you to have the chance to share your work and learn from each other. Here are more of the highlights: Concurrent Conversations with Met Ag Champions sessions on Thursday include: • The Potential of Metro Ag for Food Security—hosted by Dr. Rudy Rabbinge, Wageningen University, Netherlands and Florian Kroll, food security and environmental researcher and consultant, South Africa • Business Models for Linking Smaller Producers to Metropolitan Markets—hosted by Dan Carmody, Detroit Eastern Market, USA • The Role of Reflective Learning in Practical Metro Ag Innovative Projects—hosted by Dr. Chris Peterson, Michigan State University, USA • Metropolitan Food Policies—hosted by Pim Vermeulen, City of Amsterdam, Netherlands • Business Models for Sustainable Intenstification—hosted by Dr. Peter Smeets, Wageningen University, Netherlands • Financing Metro Ag Innovations—hosted by Kalyan Chakravathy, New Delhi, India • Integrating Agriculture in Urban Spatial and City Planning—hosted by Kathryn Underwood, City of Detroit, USA and Marco van Steekelenburg, Province of South Holland We’ve also got several guest “provocateurs” including— • Agricultural economist Dr. Decio Zylbersztajn of the PENSA institute at University of São Paulo, Brasil • Jan Kees Vis, Global Supply Chain Director Sustainable Agriculture, Unilever • Social innovator Adam Kahane, author of Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities and Power and Love:A Theory and Practice of Social Change. These speakers will, in a few minutes, challenge our thinking about food and agricultural systems. We’ll get out of the meeting room (even though it’s a neat old coffee factory) and visit projects in Holland that are already underway. We’ve got an unusual but highly effective, compelling design for the Summit, and we’ve got participants—all of whom are steeped in these issues and are committed to addressing this complex challenge. Shouldn’t you be there too? Join us. Don’t wait. The Summit will take place in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 28-30 September, 2010. We’re also pleased to announce that through the efforts of Soil & More, the conference is carbon neutral through agricultural offsets generated by composting. To download a brochure, please click here: http://images.reospartners.co.uk/summit/summitbrochure.pdf To register, click here: http://tinyurl.com/metagsummitregistration For more information about Metropolitan Agriculture, visit www.metropolitanagriculture.com Questions—please contact Sander Mager, TransForum or LeAnne Grillo, Reos Partners. Special thanks to our sponsors—Michigan State University, Unilever, Soil & More, and the Sustainable Food Lab.

Karin Andeweg (Consultant CSR Management at Blonk Milieu Advies) . This is an interesting article about the metropolitan agriculture work that has been done in Detroit/Flint: http://reospartners.com/news-view/371?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=271190779&utm_campaign=ReosPartnersQuarterlyNewsletterNo5September2010&utm_term=Readthewholearticle

Rik Eweg (Lector (Professor of Applied Sciences) at Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences) will be attending.

Lan Ge (Economist & Riskologist at LEI, Wageningen UR) will be attending.

Sander Mager (Managing Director of Licence to Grow - dedicated to innovating sustainable development) . The updated participant agenda for the Summit is online and can be downloaded here: http://images.reospartners.co.uk/summit/participantagenda.pdf

Philippe Vandenbroeck (Systems thinker and scenario planner, shiftN) will be attending.

Herman De Boon (Owner, hdb2002 bv) will be attending.

LeAnne Grillo (Partner at Reos Partners) will be attending.

Gijs Verbeek (Executive Director MPI Netherlands Chapter) will be attending.

Karin Andeweg (Consultant CSR Management at Blonk Milieu Advies) will be attending.