Program

Feeding the World Track Sessions and Talks

Detailed Bios and Talk Descriptions

Location: Humanities 1B80

(Not all the people on the bio and talk list will be presenting, only the ones listed below.) You can register for as many sessions as you'd like: just click register, fill in the contact information and add the number of sessions you'd like to attend. You don't have to match this with the specific session and can change your mind and go to a different one.
Register for any of these individual sessions, $25 each

Session 1: "Farmers Rock!"
Thursday, Sept 30, 1:30 – 3:30

Norman Reynolds, The People's Agenda, South Africa, "The Small Farmer Dairy"
Juan Nelson Rojas, Permaculture Institute of El Salvador, "Building the grassroots Farmer to Farmer Movement in El Salvador"
Florence Reed & Bruce Maanum, Sustainable Harvest International, "More Food Equals More Forest – A Sustainable Model for Rural Development in the Tropics"
Terry Wollen, Heifer International, "Grass-fed Lifestock in Terms of Contributing as a Whole"
Chair: Stuart Conway

Session 2: "Community Solutions"
Thursday, Sept 30, 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Ramona Clark, Growing Gardens, "Local Food and Partnerships (Home Sweet Home)"
Jeannette Diaz-Veizades, Saybrook Graduate School, Harvest for Haiti, "Building Agricultural Communities in Rural Haiti"
Alexander Daniel, Institute for Integrated Rural Development (IIRD), "Social Guarantee System for Organic and Eco-products"
Nancy Wicks, Round Mountain Organics/Round Mountain Institute, Inc., "Living Sustainably in America"
Chair: Shane Smith

Session 3: "Permaculture in Practice"
Friday, Oct 1, 1:30 – 3:30

Ronaldo Lec Ajcot, Mesoamerican Permaculture Center, "Seed Sharing, Cottage Industry, and Guatemala"
Ali Sharif, Permacultura America Latina, "Permaculture: Amazon Solutions"
Andre Soares, Mollison School / IPEC, "Solutions on Food Security in Brazil / Permaculture in Brazil"
Victor Guadagno, Square One LLC, "Permaculture & Industrial Ecology - Regional Sustainable Development = Security"
Chair: Andy Langford

Session 4: "World Perspectives and Solutions"
Friday, Oct 1, 4:00 - 5:30 PM

April Perry, Luke's Mission, "Aquaaponics - A Sustainable and Practical Resource for the Third World"
Richard Chapin, Chapin Watermatics, "New strategies for More Food and More Water"
Heather Schoonover, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, "Influencing Policy to Create an Agricultural System that Truly Does Feed the World"
Barbara Jackson, CARE Honduras, "CARE’s Vision of Ensuring Sustainable Solutions To Hunger"
Chair: Shane Smith

Session 5: "Holistic Agriculture"
Saturday, October 2, 1:30 – 3:30

Fred Kirschenmann, The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, "Integrative Agriculture"
Becky Myton, CARE Honduras, "CARE’s Holistic Approach to Food and Livelihood Security"
Erika Vohman, The Equilibrium Fund, "Finding Balance Between People, Food, and Forests"
Shane Smith, Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, "Community Based Sustainable Greenhouse - A History"
Chair: Marco Lam

For a possibly more accurate and updated list in a more printable format, please download this PDF.