In conjunction with Perspectives E-zine Farm to Table, we invite everyone to participate in a live online chat with Brian Halweil, Senior Researcher at Worldwatch Institute on Tuesday, December 5, 2-3 pm (EST).
Brian will be talking about how you can connect the dots between what you eat and how it helps or harms the environment. Check out an interview with Brian in Perspectives.
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JOIN THE CONVERSATION!
Post your questions and comments! On Tues., Dec. 5, Brian will respond to some of the questions live from 2-3 pm EDT.
Have a question or comment for Brian, but can't make the live event?
Just add your question by commenting below!
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Farm to Table - New Perspectives E-zine from OneWorld.net
http://us.oneworld.net/section/us/perspectives/11/food
As so many of us sit down to holiday feasts over the coming month, why do close to 1 billion people still go hungry? How do our choices of what to eat affect our communities, the environment, and
workers halfway around the world? As so many of us sit down to holiday feasts this month, OneWorld's Perspectives magazine takes a closer look at the links between agriculture and poverty and assesses the impacts of growing trends to buy organic, local, and fairly traded products.
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Brian Halweil
Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute
Brian 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.
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Comments: 3
1- The reserves to tap into and a mechanism for quick replenishment in case of sudden and unforeseen shortfall in any particular locality.
2- A mechanism to balance the food needs of the world from over-producing to under-producing zones.
3- A mechanism to meet the needs of varied and exotic tastes in food.
Agro-tech Foods industry and business are fast growing. Underdeveloped and developing countries see immense opportunities in this area, because of much needed capital for investment in other areas of development.
How can a strategy be worked out to ensure sufficient food supply to the world's hungry, maintain healthy trade and industry in food products while encouraging local self-sufficiency in food.
+ I heard in a conversation last night, that global giants such as Walmart are seriously considering switching the majority of the produce they sell over to organic. Is there truth to this ? Either way, in your opinion what are the minimum criteria for products to be labeled as "organic" ?
Thanks,
Lizzie