You make it happen. To find out how to get the ball rolling in your own school\, go to www.realfoodchallenge.org
Join the challenge to transform your school into a living laboratory for real food solutions.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20081013T050359Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081016T070000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081016T073000Z UID:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2232 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2232 SUMMARY:Ending the Food Crisis--World Food Day 2008 DESCRIPTION:As U.S. food pantries face long lines and empty shelves while food riots rock the globe\, it is clear that we are in the midst of a food crisis at home and abroad. The crisis is long in the making\, yet even as it hits both headlines and wallets\, it has been largely ignored by the current administration and the presidential candidates. In response\, food\, farm\, labor\, and justice organizations from across the US are joining together to call on our leaders to address the roots of the problem.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20081013T050359Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081016T141500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081016T161500Z UID:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2266 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2266 SUMMARY:The True Cost of Oil\: Film shorts and panel discussion DESCRIPTION:Join\: Justice in Nigeria Now\, Amazon Watch and the CounterCorp Film Festival for a night of film shorts related to the true cost of oil in Nigeria and the Amazon.
Cost\: $10 ($5 with student id)
Films include\:
The Naked Option - A Last Resort\: A work in progress by Candace Schermerhorn is a film about 600 Nigerian women who peacefully protested Chevron’s human rights and environmental abuses with only the threat of publicly stripping naked – a culturally unacceptable taboo.
Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP)\, People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) and other civil society organizations\, are initiating a call to observe October 16\, 2008\, World Food Day as the World Foodless Day. Various groups from Malaysia\, Cambodia\, Vietnam\, Sri Lanka\, Korea\, Japan\, China\, India\, Bangladesh\, Pakistan\, Mongolia\, Hongkong\, Indonesia\, Philippines\, Uganda and Kenya have expressed their intention to participate in this event\, assert people's food sovereignty and commit to a Day of Global Action with simultaneous events\, protest actions and activities.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20081013T050359Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081016T160000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081020T120000Z UID:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2226 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2226 SUMMARY:Bioneers 19th Annual Conference DESCRIPTION:www.bioneers.org to register for any or all sessions.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20081013T050359Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081018T113000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081018T130000Z UID:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2244 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2244 SUMMARY:Bioneers presentation on Latin American Agroecology DESCRIPTION:Food First executive director\, Eric Holt-Gimenez shares the podium with Ali Sharif\, founder of Permaculture America Latina (PAL) and Panfilo Tabora of Earth University in Costa Rica which is a living laboratory of sustainable practices.
Registration information\: www.bioneers.org/conference
Ph\: 505-986-0366
by Professor Daniel Sumner
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics\, UC Davis
http\://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/speaker-series-dsumner
This discussion will help clarify what has happened to food commodity and food prices over the past few years by assessing suspected drivers such as oil price increases\, biofuels policy\, weather problems\, demand increases in rapidly growing economies\, and food import and export policies.
Free and open to the public.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20081013T050359Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081025T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081231T190000Z UID:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2255 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2255 SUMMARY:60 Years\: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights DESCRIPTION:Visit Amnesty International USA's interactive web site to take action on critical issues and individual cases and download tools to customize your facebook pages.
For a preview\, go to http\://pth.amnestyusa.org/
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20081013T050359Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081029T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081029T170000Z UID:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2239 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2239 SUMMARY:Food Politics by Marion Nestle DESCRIPTION:Nestle is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition\, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology in NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences and as Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences in the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the politics of food with an emphasis on the role food marketing as a determinant of dietary choice. She is the author of Food Politics and Safe Food and is co-editor of Taking Sides\: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE:20081013T050359Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081103T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081103T190000Z UID:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2231 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2231 SUMMARY:An Agroecological Strategy to Taking Back Our Food System DESCRIPTION:by Professor Miguel Altieri
Dept of Environmental Science\, Policy and Management\, UC Berkeley
http\://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/speaker-series-maltieri
World agriculture appears to be approaching a crossroads. The
globalized economy has placed a series of conflicting demands on
existing croplands. Not only is this land required to produce food
for a growing human population\, but it also must meet the increased
demands for biofuels\; and it must do so in an environmentally sound
way that preserves biodiversity and reduces greenhouse emissions\,