Fall Harvest Week

Farm-to-Cornell and Ithaca College Present:

Francis Moore Lappé
G10 Biotech Building
Wednesday September 20th; 6:00pm

Join us for an evening with the acclaimed author of Diet for a Small Planet; World Hunger: Twelve Myths; Hope¹s Edge; and Democracy¹s Edge. Francis Lappé has authored or co-authored 15 books, and her 1971 Diet for a Small Planet has sold over 3 million copies. Through her work with the Small Planet Institute, Lappé continues to educate about the human-made causes of world hunger and the power of every day choices to create the world we want. She is a highly-regarded speaker who has received 17 honorary doctorate degrees and was the 1987 recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the Alternative Nobel.

For more information about Francis Moore Lappé visit her website: http://cinema.cornell.edu/Aug06/inconvenienttruth.html

This event is sponsored by: Ithaca College Office of the Provost; Cornell Dining, Mann Library, Small Farms Program, Department of DevelopmentSociology, Slow Food Cornell, and funded in part by the GPSAFC. Open to the public.

For more information about this event contact dls79@cornell.edu, or bpl24@cornell.edu.

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