Food Security and Sustainability
A topic of discussion around Vermont and its campuses, food security
and sustainability are critical issues in our modern world. In 2009-2010,
three VCC Americorps*VISTA positions are specifically targeting
this topic. Click a name below to read more about their projects.
Sarah
Heim, VISTA, University of Vermont Campus Kitchens Coordinator
Anna
Schulz, VISTA, Sterling College Local Food Sustainability Coordinator
Colleen
Teevin, VISTA, Green Mountain College and Rutland Area Food
and Farm Link (RAFFL) Local-link Coordinator
Resources
Food, Agriculture, and Community Development in the Northeast,
Green Mountain College Course, Syllabus,
Overview
See the GMC
Farm & Food Project webpage and sited research from UVM
Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Articles
Input
Subisidies to Improve Smallholder Maize Productivity in Malawi:
Toward an African Green Revolution, with Glenn Denning, Patrick
Kabambe, Pedro Sanchez, Alia Malik, Rafael Flor, Rebbie Harawa,
Phelire Nkhoma, Colleen Zamba, Clement Banda, Chrispin Magombo,
Michael Keating, and Justine Wangila, PLoS Biology, 7(1): e1000023,
27 January 2009. [Download article as PDF]
Small
holder Food Production and Poverty Reduction: Principles for a Financial
Coordination Mechanism to Support Smallholder Farmers Ad Hoc
Advisory Group to the Madrid Conference on Food Security, Chaired
by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, IDEAS Foundation, 26 January 2009. [Download
as PDF]
Food
For Thought Economy Viewpoint, The Report Senegal
2009, Oxford Business Group, April 2009
Homegrown
Aid The New York Times, 8 April 2009.
How
to Solve the Growing Global Food Crisis, in Three Steps, NY
Daily News, July 23, 2008
Surging
Food Pricies and Global Stability Scientific American, June
2008
The
African Green RevolutionScientific American, May 2008
Bhagwati
and Sachs on the Food Crisis International Herald Tribune,
May 7, 2008
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