Video Snack: Rick Pirog on the Realities of Transforming Foodscapes

Rich Pirog joined the newly created Center for Regional Food Systems at Michigan State University as senior associate director in May 2011.

His current work includes developing a statewide food hub learning and innovation network and providing oversight to new Center work groups that include Center and MSU faculty and staff.

From October 1990 to May 2011 he was associate director and program leader for marketing and food systems at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. At the Leopold Center, Pirog directed the Value Chain Partnership (VCP) project, an Iowa-based network of food and agriculture working groups that provides technical assistance for farmer-led food businesses in Iowa.

He spoke at UVM’s Food Systems Summit in June 2012. To learn more about the 2013 Food Systems Summit, please click here.

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