Vandana Shiva and Patrick Holden: Agrofuels, Food Security and Climate
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Dear friends and colleagues
We are please to invite you to a special event with Dr. Vandana Shiva and Patrick Holden.
'Agrofuels, Food Security and Climate: The Case for An Integrated Approach to Climate, Biodiversity and Livelihoods'.
Monday, 17th March 2008
Hampstead Town Hall Centre, 213 Haverstock Hill, London, NW3 4QP
Drinks and light refreshments from 6.30 pm, talk and discussion begins at 7.30 pm
Nearest tube Belsize Park, Northern Line. Please see the flyer attached for information on directions to the venue.
Places are available at £10 online or by cheque. It will be £12 on the door, subject to availability.
The large-scale growing of crops to satisfy our insatiable demand for fuel, and the surge in plantations to ‘offset’ and ease guilt over the excessive amounts of carbon being produced, are some of the most alarming and false solutions to climate change. The current scenario in agriculture and agrofuels is simply feeding high consumption in some parts of the world, while raising food prices, poverty and hunger in others. What’s the alternative? Vandana Shiva and Patrick Holden have convincing arguments for a return to more local economies and livelihoods. They present a workable path to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels, and protect our remaining biological and agri-cultural diversity, as we adapt to inevitable changes in climate.
Vandana Shiva is one of the world’s most dynamic and provocative thinkers. A physicist, ecologist, and activist, she won the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. She directs Navdanya and the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi, India, and is an Associate Editor of The Ecologist magazine. Before becoming an activist, Vandana Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists.
Patrick Holden has been director of the Soil Association since 1995. He has been deeply involved in the organic movement for 30 years, initially as a full time organic farmer and for the last 15 years working firstly for British Organic Farmers and then for the Soil Association. He has a 93 hectare mixed organic farm in West Wales. He was awarded the CBE in 2005 for services to organic farming.
This event is being co-hosted by The Gaia Foundation, Soil Association, Resurgence and Navdanya.
You can reserve your place online at http://www.gaiafoundation.org/learning/online.php or send a cheque for £10 to Sarah Nicholl made payable to ‘The Gaia Foundation’. Our address is The Gaia Foundation, 6 Heathgate Place, Agincourt Road, London, NW3 2NU. For more information please contact Sarah Nicholl on sarahn@gaianet.org or 020 7428 0055. Space is limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
We do hope you can join us.
