The first international development forum was launched in Fall 2009 with a workshop on Food, Politics, and Society. This public forum provides faculty, visiting scholars, students, and the local community the opportunity to address current and new issue in international development that cut across disciplinary areas and regions of the world.

Public concern about the future of our species' food system surfaces in many forms and arenas. Recent years have demonstrated widespread vulnerability to hunger and malnutrition, competition between food and bio-fuels for land and water, uncertainty about food safety and sustainability of production, and environmental effects of agriculture both near to and far from the farm. Our speakers will raise issues of ethics, movements for alternative food systems, technology, nutrition and risk. The Forum kicks off work on a new Handbook from Oxford University Press on Food, Politics, and Society.

Friday, October 30, 3:00pm - 5:00pm followed by a reception: Open to the public.

Bache Auditorium, Malott Hall, Cornell Campus

For more information see http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/calendar/index.asp?id=11760.

 

Saturday, October 31, 9:00am - 5:00pm followed by a reception: By invitation only.

Conference Room, Institute for the Social Sciences [ISS], Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell Campus

For more information see Food, Politics and Society on this website.

Organized by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) and co-sponsored by the Polson Institute for Global Development; Department of Government; Cornell Institute for the Social Sciences; and the Development, Governance, and Nature Initiative.