Visiting Scholar Program: The Fate of Food
Monday, 11/9/2020 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Virtual
Visiting Scholar Talk Links Climate to the Future of Food
Current climate models predict that global crop production will drop sharply with
rising temperatures, increased drought and the ensuing demand on water resources.
Author Amanda Little explores these predictions in her recent book, “The Fate of Food:
What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World,” which she will discuss virtually
as the concluding fall event of the Central Oregon Community College (COCC) Foundation’s
Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9. Registration
is $5; visit cocc.edu/foundation/vsp.
A professor of journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University, Little will
share stories and insights from her research travels through a dozen countries in
search of answers pertaining to the future of food. She explores historical and radically
new approaches to food production while charting the growth of a movement that could
redefine sustainability on a large scale. Little has written about energy, technology
and the environment for publications like The New Yorker, The New York Times and Rolling
Stone.
For more information on this event, contact Charlotte Gilbride, coordinator for the
Nancy R. Chandler Visiting Scholar Program, at 541-383-7257 or cgilbride@cocc.edu. This event is sponsored by The Bulletin, The Environmental Center, the Maybelle
Clark Macdonald Fund and the Associated Students of COCC.
