Back to the Foodture: Sustainable Strategies to Reverse a Global Crisis

Back to the Foodture:Sustainable Strategies to Reverse a Global CrisisFebruary 27-28, 2012

Food.

Bountiful food is celebration, creative food is art, particular foods mark cultures, lack of food is deadly. Food is so central to who and what we are that we, too often, take it for granted. But many humans are not afforded this luxury.

Now, we find ourselves at the brink of a potential crisis. A growing human population coupled with food production practices that are potentially devastating for the environment, other animals and human health (factory farming, monoculture, intensive agriculture) threaten life in many forms – both human life and entire ecosystems.

This year’s Brown Symposium considers Food from many angles and ponders ways we can rethink our relationship with this most basic, beautiful and complex of needs.To find out more about this two-day event, including schedule, participant profiles, and the accompanying film festival - visit http://www.southwestern.edu/academics/brownsymposium/index.php