Tomorrow: World Food Day with Dr. Jennifer Clapp at Market Hall

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Oct 12, 2011, 2:15:46 PM10/12/11

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Tomorrow Night: Dr. Jennifer Clapp at Market Hall

eating at the casino: hunger and the world food economy

Thursday October 13th, 2011

5:30pm: Kawartha World Issues Centre AGM (really quick!) followed by community feast, live music, and networking with the Peterborough Community Food Network

Special Guests:
Ryan DeCaire: Mohawk greeting
Dr. Rosana Pellizzari, Medical Officer of Health: Peterborough Community Food Network
Keynote presentation & discussion with Dr. Jennifer Clapp:

Hunger & the World Food System

Food provided by Grandfather's Catering, ChocoSol Tortilla Project and Food Not Bombs

Cost: Free. Feast by Donation. Donations will be given to Oxfam Canada for the East Africa Food Crisis. Cash Bar.

October 16^th 2011 will mark the 32^nd annual World Food Day, a globally acknowledged day to commemorate the creation of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The theme of this year’s FAO World Food Day program is Food Prices- From Crisis to Stability. The objective of this year’s theme is to explore the impacts of food prices on the poor and explore alternatives to prevention of the patterns of increasingly rising global food prices.

In conjunction with World Food Day, Kawartha World Issues Centre is hosting a KWIC World Issues Café on Thursday October 18^th at the Market Hall. This event will include a community feast of Indigenous black bean soup from Grandfather’s Catering, wild rice salad from Food Not Bombs, and traditional corn tortillas and salsa provided by Ivan and the ChocoSol Tortilla Project, followed by a presentation and discussion. During the feast, several local groups working on food issues, such the Peterborough Community Food Network will be represented to share information about their work creating links between the local and global food systems.

Key note speaker Dr. Jennifer Clapp will focus on the features of the world economy that make the business of food more and more like a global gambling casino. Clapp will give an overview of the causes and possible solutions to the problem of rising global food prices. Clapp is a CIGI Chair of Environmental Global Governance, and teaches both at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and the Department of Environment and Resource Studies, at the University of Waterloo. Clapp is a renowned researcher in the areas of Global food and environment politics and governance; environment and development; trade and environment/agriculture; politics of food aid; global politics of hazardous and plastic waste; agricultural biotechnology and implications for developing countries; transnational corporations and environment. "