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Global Food Issues

During the week of July 15, 2002, Worldview examined the global food revolution.
Listen to programs in this series.
Listen to past Worldview programs that cover related issues.
Check out outside links for more information.

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Listen to Programs in this Series
Changing the world with food
Monday, July 15, 2002
Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé — Authors of Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
Biotechnology and Farming: Will nitrogen-fixing crops fix nitrogen pollution?
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Carroll Vance — Research plant physiologist at the USDA Acricultural Research Service and professor at the University of Minnesota
Alternative strategy to alleve nitrogen pollution
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Donald Hey — Hydrologist for the Wetlands Initiative and the author of Nitrogen Farming: Harvesting a Different Crop
Genetically modified seeds:
How is humanity affected when plants are patented?

Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Kristin Dawkins — Vice president for international programs at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bananas from Equador
Thursday, July 18, 2002
Steve Striffler — Assistant professor of anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Arkansas and the author of In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995

McDonaldisation of Hong Kong
Thursday, July 18, 2002
Radio Hong Kong's Hugh Chiverton reports on the popularity of McDonalds in this Radio Netherlands report.
Farm subsidies: Oxfam report "Rigged Rules and Double Standards"
Friday July 19, 2002
Raymond C. Offenheiser — President of Oxfam America
E.U. farm subsidies and Poland
Friday July 19, 2002
A Radio Netherlands report on the effect that joining the E.U. may have on Polish farmers

 

 
Past Programs
Development and freedom
First aired on April 24, 2000
Amartya Sen — Nobel Prize winning economist and author of Development as Freedom
A Perspective on the U.S. aid drops in Afghanistan
First aired on October 8, 2001
Michael Maren — Author of The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity
George McGovern’s thoughts on how to end hunger
First aired on February 7, 2001
George McGovern — 1972 Democratic nominee for president, the current U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Agencies on Food and Agriculture, and the author of The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time.
   
Outside Links
  AgObservatory
  The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
  Diet for a Small Planet
  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
  Nature Magazine
  The UK Food Group
  The Wetlands Initiative
  World Food Summit
  WBEZ is not responsible for content of outside sites.


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