This section contains readings and other resources suggested by the 2012 Feeding the World Institute speakers. See below for presentation slide shows and speaker videos.
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Lisa Ainsworth — Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yields and Implications for Food Security
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Food for Thought: Lower-Than-Expected Crop Yield Stimulation with Rising CO2 Concentrations
- Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptation Needs for Food Security in 2030
- A Warming Planet Struggles to Feed Itself
- BBC One Planet - "Two Hot to Crop: American Midwest"
- BBC One Planet - "Two Hot to Crop: North West Bangladesh"
- Jamie Bender
- Alexander Blanchette — Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
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Daniel Block — Food Deserts, Food Sovereignty, and Urban Food Security
- PowerPoint Presentation
- A comparison of the availability and affordability of a market basket in two communities in the Chicago area
- Food sovereignty, urban food access, and food activism--contemplating the connections through examples from Chicago
- Northeastern Illinois Community Food Security Assessment
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Rochelle Davis — School Food: An important strategy for addressing children’s nutritional needs
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Levine, Susan. Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program. Princeton University Press. 2008.
- Poppendieck, Jane. Free for All: Fixing School Food in America. University of California Press. 2010.
- Cooper, Ann. Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed our Children. HarperCollins Publishers. 2006.
- Lunch Line (The documentary takes a look at the school lunch program by exploring its past, its current challenges, and its opportunities for the future.)
- The Weight of the Nation: Confronting America’s Obesity Epidemic (A four part film)
- Healthier US School Challenge - Building Your Team Tip Sheet
- Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program - Math & Science (Grades 9-12)
- Ingredients of the Food System Lesson Plan
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Stephanie Hanson — Can Smallholder Farmers Feed the World?
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Growth with Resilience-Opportunities in African Agriculture
- Linking Farmers to the Private Sector in Zambia
- 2012 Progress Report on U.S. Leadership in Agriculture Development
- Thurow, Roger. The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change. Public Affairs. 2012.
- One Acre Fund Handout - Maize Planting Training: Farmers First
- Erin Koepke — Hunger: The World's Greatest Solvable Problem
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Sam Loewenberg — The Hunger Season, A Cynical Cycle
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Video: Global 3000 - Malnutrition in Guatemala
- The Famine Next Time
- Humanitarian response inadequate in Horn of Africa crisis
- Escaping from Somalia's Famine into a Perilous Refuge
- Global food crisis takes heavy toll on east Africa
- Grassroots project shines hope on Nairobi slum life
- Fighting Child Malnutrition In Africa Through The Use Of Micronutrient Supplements
- Kathleen Morrison — Food Security in India: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Concerns
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Sheelah Muhammad — Food, Health & Place: A Social Justice Lens
- Fresh Moves
- Mayor Emanuel and US Department of Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announce Investment in Mobile Fresh Food Market in Chicago
- Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability. Edited by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman. The MIT Press. 2011.
- Fukuoka, Masanbu. The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming. New York Review of Books. 1978.
- Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts. Vol 5, Number 1 (Autumn 2011). Food Justice.
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Ray Offenheiser — Understanding Food Access as a Human Right
- In The News:
- New report shows 17 million lives at stake in farm bill negotiations
- In Scramble for Land, Group Says, Company Pushed Ugandans Out
- $500m of US food aid lost to waste and company profit, says Oxfam
- Bradley Roback — Health Food Chicago: The Plan to Change Our Food Culture
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LaShandra Sullivan — Rural Land Conflict in Brazil: How Private Security Forces and State Welfare Grant and Limit Access to Food
- Video: Dying for Land
- Food and Energy Sovereignty in Brazil
- The Expansion of Sugarcane-Ethanol Fuel Production and Land Conflict in Center-West Brazil
- Brazil: Malnutrition causes the death of indigenous people in Mato Grosso do Sul
- Brazil: Chief Killed in Land Dispute
- How to Explain the Power of Agribusiness in Brazil? (Video in Portuguese)
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Susanne Wengle — Industrial Agriculture and its Alternatives in the US and Russia: The Case of Genetically Engineered Crops
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Fitzgerald, Deborah. Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture. Yale University Press. 2003.
- Loffe, Grigory, Tatyana Nefedova, Ilya Zaslavsky. The End of Peasantry? The Disintegration of Rural Russia. Pittsburgh University Press. 2006.
- How California's GM Food Referendum May Change What America Eats
- Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food
- Right To Know: Label GMO Foods
- Biotechnology Industry Association
- National Survey of Healthcare Consumers: Genetically Engineered Food
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Mark Winne — Closing America's Food Gap: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Winne, Mark. Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty. Beacon Press. 2008.
- Winne, Mark. Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart Cookin' Mamas. Beacon Press. 2010.
- Nourish - An Educational Initiative (several short videos and a School Curriculum Guide)
- Teaching the Food System - A Project of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
- Excerpts from Winne's book, "Closing the Food Gap"
- Food Elitism for All
- High Food Prices – Just Another Bad Day in the Food Line
- Leading the Charge, Leading the Change
- Extraordinary Food for All
- To View, To Eat, Per Chance to Not