Food and Water |
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March 12, 2013,
Volume 59, No. 24 |
On March 13-15, Penn’s Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR), in collaboration with SAS, Design, Education, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Social Policy, Vet Medicine and Wharton will present an international conference examining the critical relationship between urbanization and food security throughout the world. Feeding Cities: Food Security in a Rapidly Urbanizing World will take place in Houston Hall. Registration: www.feedingcities.com $25; with PennCard, $5; non-Penn student w/ID, $5.
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On Wednesday, March 20, the Wharton-led, Penn-wide IGEL presents A Discussion About the Nexus of Food, Water, Energy and its Impacts on Economic Growth, featuring a keynote address by former US Attorney General John Ashcroft at 4:30 p.m. in G06 Auditorium, Jon M. Huntsman Hall. This free talk is open to the public and is a prelude to IGEL’s Sixth Annual Conference-Workshop on The Nexus of Energy, Food, and Water. To register for this see igel.wharton.upenn.edu/events/
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