During
the week of July 15, 2002, Worldview examined the global food revolution.
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Changing
the world with food Monday, July 15, 2002
Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé — Authors
of Hope's Edge:
The Next Diet for a Small Planet
Biotechnology
and Farming: Will nitrogen-fixing crops fix nitrogen pollution? Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Carroll Vance — Research plant physiologist at the USDA
Acricultural Research Service and professor at the University
of Minnesota
Alternative
strategy to alleve nitrogen pollution Tuesday, July 16, 2002
Donald Hey — Hydrologist for the Wetlands Initiative and
the author of Nitrogen Farming: Harvesting a Different Crop
Genetically
modified seeds:
How is humanity affected when plants are patented? Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Kristin Dawkins — Vice president for international programs
at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis,
Minnesota
Bananas
from Equador Thursday,
July 18, 2002
Steve Striffler — Assistant professor of anthropology
and Latin American studies at the University of Arkansas and
the author of In the Shadows of State and Capital: The
United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring
in Ecuador, 1900-1995
McDonaldisation
of Hong Kong Thursday, July 18, 2002
Radio Hong Kong's Hugh Chiverton reports on the popularity of
McDonalds in this Radio Netherlands report.
Farm
subsidies: Oxfam report "Rigged Rules and Double Standards" Friday
July 19, 2002
Raymond
C. Offenheiser — President of Oxfam America
E.U.
farm subsidies and Poland Friday July 19, 2002
A Radio Netherlands report on the effect that joining the E.U.
may have on Polish farmers
Past Programs
Development
and freedom First aired on April 24, 2000
Amartya Sen — Nobel Prize winning economist and author of Development
as Freedom
A
Perspective on the U.S. aid drops in Afghanistan First aired on October 8, 2001
Michael Maren — Author of The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects
of Foreign Aid and International Charity
George
McGovern’s thoughts on how to end hunger First aired on February 7, 2001
George McGovern — 1972 Democratic nominee for president, the
current U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Agencies on Food and Agriculture,
and the author of The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time.
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