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Thank you for the opportunity to be with you today and to take part in this symposium on the important role law schools and lawyers can play in changing our food system. Food preferences and food choices are incredibly personal, but the way we produce and consume food, and its impacts on our environment, public health, and the safety of ourselves and others, make it a pressing societal issue as well. Defining food law as a distinct field is relatively new. Lawyers and legal scholars from different backgrounds and perspectives, many of whom previously did not consider themselves practitioners of "Food Law," are coming together, acknowledging the interconnectedness of their work, and harnessing their diverse expertise in hopes of fostering food system change. 1 As lawyers, we possess the skills to propose and enact systemic legal and policy changes that can improve the health, environmental, and social impacts of the foods we produce and consume. Through my remarks, I will share my perspective on the essential skills law schools and lawyers can offer in this field based on my own work and experience. I will first relay my personal background and journey to the field of Food Law and Policy. I will then describe how I define this field of law and share some metrics about the field's growth over the past few years. To explain what this field looks like in practice, I will

Perennial agriculture refers to agricultural systems in which perennial crops are a central strategy for producing farm products and ecosystem services. Perennial agriculture offers a range of ecosystem services, including improved soil health and biodiversity, high carbon sequestration rates, agroecosystems better adapted to climate change, improved water quality, and economically viable products. Shifting U.S. agriculture to be perennial-focused will require a range of support structures, including federal policy changes. Federal policymakers should support perennial agriculture by establishing safety nets like those available for annual crops, centering perennial practices in cost-sharing conservation programs, facilitating market opportunities, and investing in perennial agriculture research and development.

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