UT to Host World Food Day Teleconference
October 10, 2008
25th Annual World Food Day Teleconference
Choices for a Warm and Hungry Planet
The University of Tennessee will broadcast the World Food Day Teleconference live from Washington D.C. on October 16, 2008 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Eastern Time in Hollingsworth Auditorium on the Ag Campus. The World Food Day teleconference is a three hour program of a panel presentation, documentary film, and question and answer session with panelists. The panel presentation will feature three panelists to discuss important issues related to world hunger and global warming, led by Ray Suarez, senior correspondent for PBS Jim Lehrer NewsHour.
Format of the teleconference will be as follows:
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Panel Presentation
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. PBS Documentary: Global Warming: The Signs and the Science
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Question and answer session with panelists
Featured Panelists:
Dr. Nancy Birdsall--Founder and President of the Center for Global Development
Dr. Siwa Msangi--International Food Policy Research Institute (Tanzania)
Mark Ritchie--Secretary of State of Minnesota
Topics to be addressed:
• Critical global issues that are impacted by climate change and global warming
• How and why the poor are especially affected
• Challenges and Choices for the academic community and civil society
For more information, contact Dr. Joanne Logan at Loganj@utk.edu.