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.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale - Food Insecurity Event, 10/2
Published October 2, 2009
Event date:
October 2, 2009 - 12:30pm
Growing Peril: A multimedia presentation on global food insecurity
Friday, October 2 at 12:30 p.m.
Dean's Conference Room
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Please join us for an evening discussion of the mounting threats to the global food production system and the challenge of reporting them. Journalists will present new documentary footage, featuring reporting from Nigeria, India and East Africa.
Fred de Sam Lazaro, Project for Under-Told Stories, PBS/NewsHour special correspondent
Sharon Schmickle, MinnPost.com, Washington Post, International Affairs and Science
Jon Sawyer, Founder & Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, www.pulitzercenter.org
Presented by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and SIU Carbondale's School of Journalism, in partnership with the Project for Under-Told Stories
Project
Pulitzer Center grantees will talk at Saint Mary's University-Winona about the struggles of delivering enough food to a growing world population.
Pulitzer Center grantees will talk at Saint Mary's University in Minnesota about how to deliver enough food to a growing world population.
