Sustainability in the Balance: Juggling Environmental Health, Economic Profitability, and Social Equity in the Global Food System

Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 2:30 – 7:00 pm

Reception to follow
Behrakis Auditorium, Tufts University Boston Campus
150 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA

Presented by FOOD: A Student Initiative of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

2:30 pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Ecologically Sound Agriculture: Principles, Practices, Constraints

Dr. Fred Magdoff, Professor of Soils, Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont

4:00 pm PANEL I: Changing Trends in the Global Food System: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Agriculture

Panelists:
Dr. Richard Levins, John Rock Professor of Population Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. Robert Paarlberg, Betty Freyhof Johnson Class of 1944 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and Associate Professor at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Dr. Molly Anderson, Consultant on Science and Public Policy Vermont and Northeast Region USDA SARE Coordinator

5:45 pm PANEL II: Biofuels: Friend or Foe of the Food System?

Panelists:
Jim Kleinshmit, Senior Associate, Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy
Dr. William Moomaw, Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Dr. Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, Associate Director, Agricultural Policy and Analysis Center, The University of Tennessee