Global Pulse 2010 will be held March 29-31 and will provide an opportunity to voice opinions, share ideas, and create innovative solutions to social issues facing the global community within the fields of science and technology, entrepreneurship, and human development. This is a unique opportunity to influence a global conversation that will build partnerships across borders, strengthen understanding among cultures, and unite the human race in an effort to create innovative solutions to the most pressing social issues of our time. To view more information and to register for the event, please visit: www.globalpulse2010.gov

Farm lobbies remain as dominant as ever over policy within their own sectors in OECD countries, but in the realm of culture, the sophisticated elite that claim to speak for food safety, food quality, social justice, and the environment have put industrial farming squarely on the defensive. The resulting debate has produced few significant changes in rich countries, but global institutions have now brought this cultural debate somewhat prematurely into the politics of non-OECD countries as well. 

 

Venue: Eugene Black Auditorium - World Bank H Building - 1914 G Street

Time: 4:00 - 6:00

Date: 24 March 2010

With the world of agriculture confronting the impact of global warming, population urbanization trends, changes in eating habits and increased use of grains for biofuels, the film outlines the shape of an impending global food crisis. Filmed in Africa, China, Latin America and the US, Seeds of Hunger examines issues involved in creating such a crisis.

You are respectfully requested to attend an OPEN hearing of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, to be held on March 24th in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building (and available live, via the WEBCAST link on the Committee website at http://www.hcfa.house.gov).