Teleconference focuses on world food issues
Twenty-two area high schools have been invited to join Chadron State College students and faculty in the 24th annual World Food Day Teleconference at Chadron State College, Tuesday, Oct. 16. The live broadcast will be aired from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Center.
The viewing is open to the public free of charge. Attendees who RSVP to rburke@csc.edu will be served lunch.
Dr. Ron Burke, CSC professor of economics, said the teleconference tackles important issues related to the world’s food supply. The title of this year’s conference is “Climate: Changes, Challenges and Consequences.”
“The purpose of this conference has always been to study why people are starving,” he said. “There is a lot of food in the world, so it’s not an issue of production. In most cases it’s an issue distribution and politics.”
The teleconference is filmed at Washington, D.C. The panelists are Suzanne Hunt, independent consultant and biofuels project manager at Worldwatch; Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig, senior research scientist and leader of the Climate Impacts Group at the NASA Goddard Institute; and Stephen Schneider, professor at Stanford University’s Department of Biological Sciiences and co-director of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy.
Category: Campus News, Physical and Life Sciences