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The New Green Revolution: Why GMOs Won't Feed the World

Sponsored by the NYU Wagner Food Policy Alliance, the NYU Wagner International Public Service Association, and the NYU Steinhardt Food Studies Program.

Join us in a lively conversation as Anna Lappé and Josphat Ngonyo discuss the implications of genetically engineered seeds, industrial agriculture, and the role of agribusiness on the environment and livelihoods in the US and abroad.

Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author, sustainable food advocate, and mom. Respected for her work on sustainability, food politics, globalization, and social change, Anna was named one of Time’s “Eco” Who’s-Who. Anna is a founding principal, with her mother Frances Moore Lappé, of the Small Planet Institute, an international network for research and popular education about the root causes of hunger and poverty. The Lappés are also co-founders of the Small Planet Fund, which has raised more than $500,000 for democratic social movements worldwide, two of which have won the Nobel Peace Prize since the Fund’s founding in 2002. Her latest book is Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. Anna is also the co-author of Hope's Edge, with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé, and Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, with Bryant Terry. Read her latest work at Take a Bite out of Climate Change.

Josphat Ngonyo is the founding Director of Africa Network for Animal Welfare and Youth for Conservation. He is a key player in conservation and animal welfare in Africa, holding many positions, including with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation and as the international representative to Compassion in World Farming. He led the Kenyan government’s National Steering Committee to review its wildlife conservation and management policy and legislation. He won the Middle East Animal Welfare Award (2007) and the Eastern Africa Environmental Leadership Award (2003) and is a member of the Global Task Force on Farm Animal Welfare and Trade. He has helped develop the coalition against the introduction of GE crops in Kenya.


When: 11/01/2011 6:00pm-8:00pm
Location:
NYU Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East, 3rd Floor

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