Closer to Home: Eating from Local Foodsheds, Nov 20 panel discussion at UC Berkeley

**Closer to Home: Eating from Local Foodsheds** *is a panel discussion at UC
Berkeley that investigates the opportunities and challenges of eating
locally grown food from the perspectives of public health, food access,
school food service, and regional farmland vitality.

*Panelists:* Ann Cooper, Director of Nutrition Services, Berkeley Unified
School District; Paula Jones, Director of San Francisco Food Systems, San
Francisco Department of Public Health; Jeremy Madsen, Executive Director,
Greenbelt Alliance; Kimi Watkins-Tartt, Director Community Health Services,
Alameda County Public Health Department.

*Moderator:* Jason Corburn, Assistant Professor in the UC Berkeley
Department of City and Regional Planning and a member of the Global
Metropolitan Studies
Initiative.

*November 20 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.*  Doors to the auditorium will open at
6:30 p.m.

*112 Wurster Hall,* near the intersection of College Avenue and Bancroft Way
(http://berkeley.edu/map/).

The event is *free and open to the public*. RSVP requested at
<goog_1226416905397>http://enviro.berkeley.edu/amr/foodsheds

*Sponsors:* This forum is the third in a series exploring causes of the
global food crisis and potential solutions. The series is sponsored by
Agriculture in Metropolitan Regions, the Center for Global Metropolitan
Studies, the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism, and the
Berkeley Institute of the Environment.

--
Sibella Kraus, Director
Agriculture in Metropolitan Regions
Global Metropolitan Studies
University of California, Berkeley
http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/agmetroedge

startdate: 
20 Nov 2008 - 7:00pm
enddate: 
20 Nov 2008 - 9:00pm

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