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The Struggle for Food
September 8, 2004
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Food. For some it's as simple as going to a supermarket. But there are issues today that have a direct impact on the way we eat. Both the local landscape and the global economy hold sway over food availability.
On this week's edition we hear from people delivering fresh organic food to under-served neighborhoods, and from farmers striking a balance between sustainability and survival. We'll also hear from a biologist who became involved in a political struggle after discovering genetically contaminated corn in Mexico.
Featuring:
Brahm Ahmadi, co-director, People's Grocery; Rhonda Jenkins, People's Grocery customer; Nikia Dillard, employee of People's Grocery; Leroy Muskgraves, farmer; Christine Anh, economic and social human rights coordinator, Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First); Ignacio Chapela, assistant professor, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley; Kristie Knoll, farmer; Anuradha Mittal, organizer, Food First; Renata Brillinger, director, Californians for GE-Free Agriculture; Maria Lydia Orianda, president, Federal Copales; Pedro Saragosa Martinez, Desarrollo Social para los Mexicanos Indígenas (DESMI); Albert and Jean Straus, farmers; Helena Norburg Hodge, founder, International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC).
For more information :
People’s Grocery
820 Wood St., Oakland, CA 94607
510-763-0328; info@peoplesgrocery.org
www.peoplesgrocery.org
Institute for Food and Development Policy
398 60th Street
Oakland, CA 94608
510-654-4400
www.foodfirst.org
University of California, Berkeley
Ecosystem Sciences Division
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
151 Hilgard Hall #3110|
Berkeley, CA 94720-3110
510-642-0341; ichapela@nature.berkeley.edu;
www.cnr.berkeley.edu/chapelalab/
Renata Brillinger
Californians for GE-Free Agriculture
415-561-2523; www.calgefree.org
Federal Copales
c/o SHARE El Salvador
598 Bosworth St. #1, San Francisco, CA 94131
415-239-2595; sharesf@share-elsalvador.org
www.share-elsalvador.org
DESMI, A.C.
Apartado Postal 65, 29200, San Cristobal de Las Casas
Chiapas, Mexico
01-967-81248; desmiac@laneta.apc.org
International Development Exchange
827 Valencia Street, Suite 101
San Francisco, CA 94110-1736
415-824-8384; info@idex.org
www.idex.org
Straus Family Creamery
P.O. Box 768
Marshall, CA 94940
415-663-5464; family@strausmilk.com
www.strausmilk.com
International Society for Ecology and Culture
PO Box 9475
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-548-4915; California@isec.org.uk
www.isec.org.uk