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  • From: "Tradingpost Paul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] A major international conference - Food Security in an Energy Scarce World
  • Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 10:15:14 -0600


from richard douthwaite <richard@douthwaite.net>

FEASTA
The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability


What will we eat as the oil runs out?

And how many of us will be able to find enough to eat at all?

Humanity's present food production and distribution systems are heavily
dependent on inputs of fossil fuels. Unfortunately, many experts think that

world production of cheap, easily-produced oil will begin to decline within

the next five years as the oilfields from which it comes are depleted.
Natural gas production, so vital for the production of fertilisers, is
expected to begin to decline by 2025 for exactly the same reason. So what
will happen to food availability as a result?

A major international conference - Food Security in an Energy Scarce World

is being held in Dublin between June 23rd and 25th to find out. It is
organised by Feasta, the Foundation for the Economics of
Sustainability, in association with the Department of Environmental
Resource Management at the Faculty of Agri-Food and the Environment,
University College Dublin.

Speakers include:

Cait Curran - Market gardener and editor of Organic Matters magazine
Julian Darley - Founder of the Post Carbon Institute
Richard Douthwaite - Economist and author of The Growth Illusion and Short
Circuit
John Feehan - Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Agri-Food and the
Environment, UCD
Folke Gunther - Ph.D. student at the Department of Systems Ecology at
Stockholm University
Anita Hayes - Founder of the Irish Seed Savers Association
Richard Heinberg - Author of Powerdown - Options and Actions for a
Post-Carbon Future
Mae-Wan Ho - Director of the Institute of Science and Society
David Holmgren - Author of Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond
Sustainability
Seamus Hoyne - Managing Director of Tipperary Energy Agency
Seán McDonagh - Author of Patenting Life? Stop! and The Death of Life:
The
Horror of Extinction
Helena Norberg-Hodge - Founder of the International Society for Ecology and

Culture
Michael O'Brien - Trade Policy Advocacy Officer with Trocaire
Deirdre O'Connor - Lecturer in Resource Economics, UCD
Jules Pretty - Director of the Centre for Environment and Society,
University of Essex
Darrin Qualman - Director of Research, National Farmers Union of Canada
Wayne Roberts - Project coordinator of the Toronto Food Policy Council
Colin Sage - Lecturer at Department of Geography, University College Cork
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington - Head of Botany Department, NUI Galway
Lori Stahlbrand - Project Leader of the The Local Food Eco-label Project
Andre Viljoen - Architect and author of Continuous Productive Urban
Landscapes

Full details and a booking form for the event can be downloaded from
<http://www.feasta.org/events/foodconf/food_conference.htm>www.feasta.org/ev
ents/foodconf/food_conference.htm


Everyone booking before the end of May qualifies for an Early Bird discount

of 20%. All the non-Dublin speakers and a lot of the other participants
will be staying at Bewley's Hotel, Leopardstown, where FEASTA has reserved
a block of rooms. These are going fast so if you want to get one, contact
the FEASTA office at +353 (0)1 4053615 or feasta@anu.ie for information.
The room rate is €79 a night and a room will accommodate two people.
Dublin
hotels are heavily booked during the conference because of a pop concert so

you might find it difficult to book elsewhere. A minibus will run
participants between the hotel and the conference hall..

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FEASTA: The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability,
10A Lower Camden Street, Dublin 2
Phone: +353 (0)1 405 3615
Fax: +353 (0)1 405 4835
Email: <mailto:feasta@anu.ie>mailto:feasta@anu.ie
Website: <http://www.feasta.org/>http://www.feasta.org





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