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Dear {usertag:name}
This e-newsletter is being sent to the Food & Gardening Subgroup.
1. Peoples Food Plan
Wednesday19 Sept from 5-7pm room 211Michie Building UQ St Lucia campus.
Thursday20 Sept from 6-8pm Turnstyle 10 Laura St Highgate Hill
Wednesday26 Sept from 5:45-7:30pm Brisbane Sq Library Theatrette
Tuesday16 October from 6-8pm Croquet Club Hall 91 Cordelia St South Brisbane
There are urgent social political economic and environmental threats to the health of our food systems. We believe that healthy food systems are able to:
The Peoples Food Plan process will involve exceptional Australians coming together to discuss our values and priorities for the establishment of our new sustainable food system.
We want to hear from you. Join us to share your experiences thoughts and ideas.
More dates coming so check the website (and also read the Peoples Food Plan discussion brief)
http://australian.foodsovereigntyalliance.org/
2 The Global Land Grab (free event)
Monday 5 November 2012 1.00pm – 2.30pm Terrace Room (Level 6) Sir Llew Edwards Building UQ St Lucia campus
Philip McMichael is a Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. Born in Adelaide and educated at Adelaide University he completed his PhD in Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
His dissertation research on the land question in colonial Australia was conducted while teaching at the University of New England Armidale resulting in an award-winning book: Settlers and the Agrarian Question (1984). Returning to the U.S. he has since concentrated his research on food regimes the politics of globalisation and agrarian movements editing The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (1994) New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (2005 with F. H. Buttel) Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (2010) and Biofuels Land and Agrarian Change (2011 with J. Borras & I. Scoones).
He has worked with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization the UN Research Institute for Social Development FoodFirst and the international peasant coalitions Vía Campesina and the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty. He has recently authored the 5th edition of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (2012).
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Serving up sustainability: simple ways to cut costs in the food business
Wednesday September 26 2012 from 7:30am to 11am The Pavilion Allan Border Field 1 Bogun St Breakfast Creek
The forum is on Serving up sustainability: simple ways to cut costs in the food business at the Allan Border Field Albion on 26 September 2012. All interested businesses are invited to attend.
We are focusing the forum on cost savings to help this industry with the current climate of rising overheads. The early bird price is $20 for any people you would like to pass the forum information on to !! There is fierce networking at the forums.
The target audience is South East Queensland food businesses including restaurants cafés pubs function venues hospital and aged care kitchens caterers who will reduce their running costs with simple measures and eco-efficient technology by attending this forum. You can imagine the networking will be fierce. Delegates will hear from our keynote speaker the Executive Chef at Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre about the state of the art sustainability measures they are leading the industry with and from other businesses that have started making changes to reduce their bills. We also have Vulture Street restaurant Swamp Dog speaking on what they have done.
The registration early bird rate is only $20 and $40 after 19 September. For more information on this informative event and to register please visit www.ehp.qld.gov.au/ecobiz/network
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