[ESSP] Reclaiming Local Food Markets - Dec 1

[Vanessa Paulman]

Ever shop at a farmers market? Plant a home 
garden? Wonder where your food comes from? You're 
not alone. Amidst concerns about genetically 
modified foods, mad cow disease, and urban 
sprawl, people everywhere are swarming farmers 
markets, reforming fast food chains, and 
declaring independence from the global vending 
machine. Eat Here shows why eating local can be 
better for your health, for farmers, and for the 
planet.

CISA - Community Involved in Sustaining 
Agriculture and Hampshire College's Environmental 
Studies and Sustainability Program and the Local 
Foods Initiative invite you to meet Worldwatch 
Institute author Brian Halweil as he discusses 
his book and local responses to the globalization 
of our food supply.

Wednesday, December 1, 2004
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
East Lecture Hall
Franklin Patterson Hall


Brian Halweil, a Senior Researcher, joined 
Worldwatch in 1997 as the John Gardner Public 
Service Fellow from Stanford University. At the 
Institute, Brian writes on the social and 
ecological impacts of how we grow food, focusing 
recently on organic farming, biotechnology, 
hunger, and rural communities. Most recently, he 
describes the evolving local food movement in Eat 
Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global 
Supermarket.

Brian's work has been featured in the 
international press, and he recently testified 
before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign 
Relations on the role of biotechnology in 
combating poverty and hunger in the developing 
world. Brian has traveled extensively in Mexico, 
Central America and the Caribbean, and East 
Africa learning indigenous farming techniques and 
promoting sustainable food production. Before 
coming to Worldwatch, Brian worked with 
California farmers interested in reducing their 
pesticide use, and set up a 2-acre student-run 
organic farm on Stanford campus. He writes from 
Sag Harbor, NY, where he and his wife tend a home 
garden and orchard.

-- 
Vanessa

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Vanessa Paulman       
Center for Science Exploration
Hampshire College

phone: (413) 559-5792
fax: (413) 559-5438
Adele Simmons Hall #132

http://ScienceExploration.hampshire.edu


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