Twenty-five years ago Abdullahi Tijjani had a vision for Kuki, a village in the north of Nigeria he became chief of at age 14: "Hunger will become a thing of the past once we marry modern technologies and traditional farming," he told reporter David Hecht when they met in 1984 in the mud-brick structure he called his palace.
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
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.
