The following are resources suggested by the Center for International Studies.
Day 1 - Global Hunger
- Hunger, the Food Crisis, Aid
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations – Hunger statistics, interactive hunger map, reports, basic definitions, related links
- Feed the Future--USAID Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative
- GROW: Food. Justice. Planet: Stories and Video
- Enough for Everyone: Oxfam’s Five-point Plan to Respond to the Emerging Food Crisis and Reduce Food Insecurity Around the World
- Growing a Better Future: Food Justice in a Resource-Constrained World
- $500m of US Food Aid Lost to Waste and Company Profit, says Oxfam
- U.S. Food Aid Needs Overhaul, says Report
- When Food Aid Goes Local, Some Say It Works Better
- Should U.S. Food Aid to North Korea Be Made in China?
- USAID Administrator: On Tackling Food Crisis
- Haitian Farmers Undermined by Food Aid
- Food. Farming. Future: Breaking the Cycle of Malnutrition and Poverty (ONE)
- Global Food Losses and Food Waste
- World Food Program-Hunger
- Should U.S. Food Aid to North Korea Be Made in China?
- Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal. Edited by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar. Monthly Review Press. 2010.
- Green Revolution
- Reporting in the Horn of Africa
- Lesson Plan – Food, Water, and Safety in the Horn of Africa
- Lesson Plan – Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Understanding the Famine in Somalia
- Some Improvements But Somalia Still In Crisis
- Horn of Africa Food Crisis – latest updates
- High Levels of Food Insecurity in South Sudan
- Somalia Famine Ends But Situation Still Dire
- FAO Appeals for Urgent Horn of Africa Funds
- Linking Extreme Poverty and Global Terrorism
- Somalia famine: US pledges a further $28m in aid
- Food Security and the Horn of Africa
- Update: Aid for the food crisis in the Horn of Africa – get the data
- USAID – FWD (Famine, War, Drought Relief)
- The Not-Inevitable Crisis: Why 9 Million Are Hungry in East Africa
- Famine Myths: Five Misunderstandings Related to the 2011 Hunger Crisis in the Horn of Africa
- Why does famine persist in Africa?
- Global Food System
- An Answer to the Global Food Crisis: Peasants and Small Farmers Can Feed the World!
- La Via Campesina – Video
- A Note on Rising Food Prices
- South Korean company takes over part of Madagascar to grow biofuels
- Global Food Crisis: The New World of Soaring Food Prices
- UN Declares End to Somalia Famine But Warns Crisis Not Over
- Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People
- The Future of the Global Food System
- Climate Change
- Climate Change Threatens Food Crisis as Croplands Reduced, Says Report
- Increasing Focus on Climate Change/Food Crisis: Beware ‘Single Factor’ Explanations, Uncertainties
- Global Food Crisis: Climate Change Imperils Guatemala’s Food Security
Global Food Crisis – interactive (graphic) - Climate Change and the Growing Food Crisis
- Climate Change and the Food Crisis: Issues and Solutions
- Global water crisis and future food security in an era of climate change
- Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics
- Migration and Global Environmental Change: Future Challenges and Opportunities
- Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change
- The poverty implications of climate-induced crop yield changes by 2030
- Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Change
- Food and Biodiversity
- Possible Changes to Arable Crop Yields by 2050
- Competition for Water for the Food System
- Implications of climate change for agricultural productivity in the early twenty-first century
Day 2 – The Right to Food and Modern Agriculture
- Human Right to Food
- The Right to Food is a Basic Human Right
- World Food Day 2007: Food as a Human Right
- Report to the UN on Rights to Food
- Food Aid and the World Hunger Solution: Why the U.S. Should Use a Human Rights Approach
- Agricultural Trade and the Human Right to Food: The Case of Small Rice Producers in Ghana, Honduras, and Indonesia
- Moving from Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty
- The Scarcity Fallacy
- Institute for Food and Development Policy - Food First
- Land Availability
- Women, Girls, Youth, and Development
- Farmer Suicides, Food Bill, India
- Land Grabs
- Global Trends Driving ‘Land Grab’ in Poor Nations: Activists
- Small Farms as a Planetary Ecological Asset: Five Key Reasons Why We Should Support the Revitalization of Small Farms in the Global South
- Rural Communities Express Dismay: ‘Land Grabs’ Fuelled by Biofuel Strategy
- Land Grabs – Reports from Oakland Institute
- International Conference on Global Land Grabbing – Conference Papers
- Factory Farming
- Modern Agriculture, Myths and Realities of GM Crops
Day 3 – National and Local Needs for Nutrition
- Hunger in America
- Local Foods, Farm to Fork
- 2012 Farm Bill, School Nutrition, Farm to School Network
- New Report Shows 17 Million Lives at Stake in Farm Bill Negotiations
- Payment limits reemerge, Farm Bill wrangling aplenty
- Producers share priorities for 2012 Farm Bill
- The Nexus Between Biofuels, Energy, and Agriculture
- Top 10 Things You Should Know About The Farm Bill
- Farm Bill Primer
- Farm Bill Videos
- Food Deserts
- America’s Worst 9 Urban Food Deserts
- Food Deserts: If you build it, they may not come
- America’s ‘Food Deserts’
- Programs cropping up across USA to address 'food deserts'
- Food Deserts In Chicago Reportedly Down 40 Percent
- Emanuel takes on Chicago's food deserts
- Chicago's food desert shrinking, report shows
- New Report Shows Progress in Chicago's Food Deserts
- Mari Gallagher -- Food Deserts – TEDxWindyCity
- FoodCorps
Resources Suggested by Attendees
- Websites/Apps
- foodpatriots.com
- kiva.org
- heiferfoundation.org
- freerice.com
- neverseconds.blogspots.com
- "Meatrix"
- NatGeo iPad app - "7 billion"
- connectallschools.org
- storyofstuff.org
- iTunes U - McGill University Principal's Minis: "Feeding the World, Waste Not Want Not"
- Books
- Around the World in 80 Diets by Peter Menzel
- What the World Eats by Peter Menzel
- Botany of Desire
- Four Fish
- Seedfolks (can be used for high school too)
- Media
- Food, Inc.
- Food Patriots
- SuperSize Me
- Freakanomics Podcast “You Are What You Eat”
- Future of Food
- 11th Hour
- Weight of the Nations
- Dirt
- Story of Stuff
- Flow (for the love of water)
- Food-Stamped
- Tapped
- The True Cost of Food
- Thirst
- Forks Over Knives
- Food Matters
- This Land Is Our Land
- Age of Stupid
- Koyaanisgatsi
- Life Out of Balance
- One Piece at a Time
- Miscellaneous
- Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
- Choices Units
- Cluborlov (Dimitri Orlov)
- Post Carbon Institute
- Yale online course on Politics of Food (lecture podcasts)
- Kidsgarden Grants
- World Food Prize Global Youth Institute
- Share Our Strength campaign
- No Kid Hungry campaign