CROPfm Forum

The Goldman School of Public Policy presents Food, Politics and the Obesity Epidemic: How the Food Industry Influences Diet and Health. Dr. Marion Nestle lectures on the obesity epidemic facing America today and the role food manufacturers, advertisers and politics play in this health crisis. Series: Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley

Josette Sheeran, executive director of the UN World Food Program (WFP), addressed the world food crisis situation at a Peterson Institute event on May 6, 2008. Sheeran is one of the leading coordinators of the global response to one of the most important and urgent problems facing the world: skyrocketing food prices and global hunger. Sheeran became the eleventh head of the WFP in 2007. It is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, extending food assistance to some 80 million people annually in around 80 of the world’s poorest countries. She was formerly under secretary for economic affairs at the Department of State and deputy US trade representative

Auf weltweit bis zu 200.000 Quadratkilometer Meeresboden sei aufgrund von Sauerstoffmangel nahezu kein Leben mehr möglich, warnt die Umweltstiftung WWF unter Berufung auf das World Resources Institute.