Ug99, a virulent fungal disease, could create a major food security crisis by attacking the world's second largest crop, wheat. After the disease was discovered in Uganda in 1999, its spores took to the wind, hit fields in Kenya and Ethiopia, jumped the Red Sea to Yemen and turned up this year in Iran.
"Growing Peril" Reporting The Under-Told Stories of Global Food Production, St. John's University, 4/7
Published March 20, 2009
Event date:
April 7, 2009 - 7:00pm
Please join us for a discussion of the mounting threats to the global food production system and the challenge of reporting them. We will view new documentary footage, featuring
reporting from Nigeria, India and East Africa.
When: Tuesday, April 7 at 7pm
Where: Quad 264 Click here for map
Panelists include:
Fred de Sam Lazaro, Project for Under-Told Stories
Sharon Schmickle, Minnpost.com, International Affairs and Science
Katie Johnson, Professor of Communications, SJU
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Special Guest:
William F. Baker, media expert, long time journalist and leader in the broadcast industry. He is a senior research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.
Project
Students at School Without Walls explore the tension between financial insecurity and nutritional needs.
A generation ago, the African nation of Nigeria launched a plan to embrace modern farming. But today the country is more dependent than ever on imported food.
