A World Food Day Teleconference session will be held on the UW-Green Bay campus on Thursday October 16th from 11:00AM to 2:00 PM in IS 1034. The impact of the financial crisis on those living in poverty, the responsibilities of the rest of the world, and the emerging solutions will be the focus of the 2009 teleconference. Three international leaders -- Max Finberg, Director of the Alliance to End Hunger; Rep. Jim McGovern, co-chair of the Congressional Hunger Caucus, and Joy Phumaphi, Vice President of the Human Development Network at the World Bank -- will exchange views. See www.worldfooddayusa.org for more information.

Barth Anderson is Research and Development Coordinator for Wedge Community Co-op in Minneapolis. He writes about the politics and economics of food and has traveled to see coffee production first hand in rural Nicaragua. He serves on the Organic Task Force for Minnesota's Department of Agriculture and writes a food column for the Wedge Co-op Newsletter, which was nominated by the Utne Reader for Best of the Indie Press. The Center for Food in Community and Culture is co-sponsoring his presentation on "The Omnivore's Solution: How to Find Food that Sustains" on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 3:30 pm in the Christie Theater in the Student Union of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.