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1609 Connecticut Ave NW #400
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202.332.3320
Fax: 202.332.3327 |
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| Monday, September 22nd |
| 8:00 am |
Registration opens/Continental Breakfast available - Second
Floor Lobby Talley Student Center |
| 9:00 am |
Welcome - Whiterspoon Cinema |
| 9:30 am |
Keynote Address - Eva M. Clayton, The Honorable, UN FAO -
Whiterspoon Cinema
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| 10:30 am |
Break - Talley Center Galleries |
| 10:45 am |
Workshop
Session I
• From Oil Age to Soil Age - Whiterspoon
Room 126
• Role of Government Policy in Industrialization
of Livestock Production - Talley Student Center Blue Room
• Politics of Campus Dining - Talley Student Cetner Green Room
• The Farm Bill Uncovered - Talley Student Center Room 3118
• Worker Justice as an Element of Sustainable Food - Talley
Student Center Brown Room |
| 12:15 pm |
Lunch - McKimmon Center (Load Buses at Reynolds Coliseum) |
| 2:30 pm |
Plenary Session: The Business of Sustainability - McKimmon
Center |
| 4:30 pm |
Networking Opportunity - McKimmon Center |
| 5:00 pm |
Reception Hosted by Park Scholarships - McKimmon
Center |
| Tuesday, September
23rd |
| 7:30 am |
Registration opens/Continental Breakfast - Second Floor Lobby Talley Student Center |
| 8:30 am |
Workshop
Session II
• Slow Money: Financing Sustainable Food Systems - Tally Student Center Walnut Room
• Impact of Organic Agriculture - Talley Student Center Brown Room
• Achieving Agricultural Justice and Domestic Fair Trade - Talley Student Center Blue Room
• Global Perspective on Agricultural Policy: Focus on the Food Crisis - Talley Student Center Room 3118
• More Than the Corner Store - Talley Student Center Green Room |
| 10:00 am |
Break |
| 10:15 am |
Buses Depart for Field Trips - Reynolds Coliseum Parking Deck (Pick-up box lunch and board buses for fields trips) |
| 2:00 pm |
Buses Depart to Return to NC State - Buses unload at Velvet Cloak Inn, 1505 Hillsborough St. |
| 3:00 pm |
Plenary Session: Debating the Politics of Food - Velvet Cloak Inn Ballroom |
| 5:00 pm |
Networking Opportunity - Mitch's Tavern, 2426 Hillsborough St. |
| Wednesday, September
24th |
| 7:30 am |
Continental Breakfast - Second
Floor Lobby Talley Student Center |
| 8:30 am |
Workshop
Session III
• Growing Healthy Food Without Frying the Planet - Talley Student Center Room 3118
• From Pilot to Policy: Promoting a Sustainable Food System - Whiterspoon Room 126
• Food and Health Care System - Talley Student Center Blue Room
• Kitchen Table Revolutionaries: How Food Activists are Changing
the US Food System - Talley Student Center Brown Room
• Roadblocks Ahead: How Disaster Assistance Programs Prevent the
Growth of Sustainable Markets - Talley Student Center Green Room |
| 10:00 am |
Coffee Break - Talley Center Galleries |
| 10:30 am |
Plenary Session: Equity and Justice in the American
Food System - Talley Student Center Ballroom |
| 12:30 pm |
Lunch/Networking Break - Talley Student Center Ballroom |
| 2:00 pm |
Plenary Session: Do we need Genetically Modified Organisms?:
A Conversation with Vandana Shiva and Gary Comstock
- Talley Student Center Ballroom |
| 4:00 pm |
Closing and Evaluation - Talley Student Center Ballroom |
How can we promote a food system that is environmentally sustainable, socially
just, and economically viable? Growing worldwide populations and anticipated
new stresses connected to climate change will place new pressures on our
food system. At the same time, the food system already falls short in sustaining
the well-being of rural communities, even while consumers experience skyrocketing
obesity and related health problems. Food production and distribution systems
frequently exacerbate social inequality, rather than fulfilling food's traditional
role of bringing communities together.
The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) invites you to a national conference
on how America grows, distributes, buys and eats its food. Entitled "The
Politics of Food," the agenda for this September 22-23, 2008 conference
will focus on food security, sustainability and systems.
Drawing on diverse perspectives from farmers, workers, businesses, academics,
social activists, government regulators and artists, the conference will
engage participants in a challenging exploration of how and why our food
system works as it does, whether it is secure, just and sustainable, and
how it might be reshaped for the future.
Conference themes will include:
* agriculture's role in supporting vibrant communities and healthy ecosystems;
* questions of equity and justice in the food system, including U.S. agricultural
subsidy programs, farm and factory labor practices, access to healthy food,
and industrial pollution and public health risks;
* the implications of climate change and rising energy demands for agricultural
production; and,
* tensions among, and prospects for, organic agriculture, genetically engineered
crops, and local versus international agriculture and centralized versus
decentralized systems.
The conference will provide an interactive forum that enables attendees
to make new connections and share information around the common goal of
developing visionary, yet practical, solutions to local and national food-related
challenges. The conference will help participants to identify opportunities
for public leadership in their communities and institutions, ways that they
can help shape the nation's food systems.
North Carolina State University Park Scholarships and Department of Food
Science will co-host the "Politics of Food" conference. North Carolina's
rich and diverse agricultural heritage has put it at the crux of the challenges
facing modern agriculture, and this setting provides a terrific opportunity
to explore strategies that North Carolina communities and businesses are
using to build a more sustainable food system from the ground up.
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Saulo Araujo Discusses Biofuels, the environment, and workers' rights.
