Sept. 29 Global & Local Food discussions

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Event: SF's New Sustainable Food Mandate

9/29/09 (Tues.)

Time: 6:30-8 pm

Place: 315 Linden St. near Fell/Gough, SF

RSVP: ktt or leave a message at 925.785.0713. $10 suggested

donation at the door; no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Sustainable

food and refreshments will be provided.

In July, Major Gavin Newsom issued a new Executive Directive for Healthy and

Sustainable Food for the City, articulating a vision of a food system with

nutritious food for all San Franciscans, shorter distances between consumers and

producers, protections for worker health and welfare, reduced environmental

impacts, and strengthened connections between urban and rural communities.

One of the most ambitious food policies in the country, the Directive sets

far-reaching mandates for allocating City funds to ensure that hunger is

eliminated; planning neighborhoods to ensure healthy food options; spending

municipal food dollars on regionally produced and sustainable food; encouraging

food production on City owned land; promoting local food businesses; supporting

policies to conserve peri-urban prime farmland; helping to market regionally

grown food in San Francisco; recycling all organic residuals and eliminating

chemical use in municipal agriculture and landscaping; and educating residents

about healthy food and sustainable food systems.

Leading us in conversation will be Paula Jones, Director of Food Systems, S.F.

Department of Public Health, and Jason Mark, co-manager of Alemany Farm, a 4.5

acre urban farm, recently featured in the S.F. Chronicle, and on the forefront

of the urban food movement in the City. Everyone involved and interested in

Citywide sustainable food and urban farming policy is encouraged to join the

discussion.

Kitchen Table Talks is a joint venture of Civil Eats and 18 Reasons, a

non-profit which promotes conversation between its San Francisco Mission

neighborhood and people who feed us.

http://civileats.com/2009/09/09/gavin-newsoms-executive-directive/

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> The Global Food Crisis

> Panel Discussion | September 29 | 3:20-5 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, Maud Fife Room,

315 Wheeler Hall

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> Panelist/Discussants: Miguel Altieri, Professor, Environmental Science, Policy

and Management; Julie Guthman, Professor, Community Studies, UC Santa Cruz; Dr.

Raj Patel; David Zilberman, Professor, Agriculture and Resource Economics, UCB

> Moderator: Isha Ray, Professor, Energy and Resources Group, UCB

> Sponsors: Letters & Science, College of, Blum Center for Developing Economies

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> Join us to hear a panel of activists, scientists and social scientists discuss

the problem of world hunger and some approaches to a solution. This panel is

presented in conjunction with On the Same Page with Michael Pollan, and

co-sponsored by the College of Letters & Science and the Blum Center for

Developing Economies.

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> Target audiences: Faculty, Students - Graduate, Students - Undergraduate

> Open to audience: All Audiences

> Attendance restrictions: Event is open and free of charge. First come, first

seated.

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