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DESCRIPTION:A recent Financial Times headline reads, "Western countries have upgraded 
 the food (and fuel) crisis into a national security concern as they fear 
 that record high energy and agricultural commodity costs are destabilizing 
 key developing regions of the world."  Considering the underlying causes, 
 including industry-influenced biofuel decisions, an exploding 
 developing-world middle class and a destructive spasm of speculative 
 commodities trading, a solution will not come easily.\n\nComing to help us 
 understand the scope of this global dilemma - and point out possible 
 solutions - is an eminently well-qualified speaker, Dr. Raj Patel.\n\nPatel 
 writes, "With estimates of the world's hungry topping one billion in the 
 wake of the current food crisis, increasing levels of obesity and type-2 
 diabetes, a projected population of 9 billion by 2050, climate change 
 making harvests more erratic, and a limited amount of arable land on which 
 to farm, the future of food seems bleak...but it doesn't have to be. There 
 are ways both to tackle the problem of hunger and the problems of 
 diet-related disease in a way that promotes social justice, environmental 
 sustainability, and human development."\n\nWe will have for sale Patel's 
 book "Stuffed and Starved," which tells the current story of the global 
 food system.\n\nAs part of his academic training, Patel worked at the World 
 Bank, World Trade Organization and the United Nations. He has since become 
 an outspoken and noted critic of all of these organizations, and has been 
 tear-gassed on four continents protesting against his former employers. He 
 was one of many organizers in the 1999 protests in Seattle, WA, and has 
 organized in support of the organization Food Sovereignty.\n\nPatel is 
 currently a Fellow at Food First. Earlier this year he went to Capitol Hill 
 to testify on the global food crisis before the House Financial Services 
 Committee. He is regularly interviewed on the BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera and 
 NPR.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/23/18528946.php
SUMMARY:Dr. Raj Patel Speaks on the Global Food Crisis
LOCATION:St. Catherine of Siena Parish\n1310 Bayswater Avenue\nBurlingame, CA 
 94010\n\nhttp://www.stcsiena.org/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/23/18528946.php
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