---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nagraj Adve <[email protected]> Date: 14 March 2011 08:14 Subject: Thursday: Discussion on Urban Food Production and Food Security
DELHI PLATFORM invites you to a discussion on FOOD SECURITY, PEAK OIL AND URBAN AGRICULTURE Access of the poor in India to the most basic foods has deteriorated in recent months. This is due to a sharp rise in the prices of dals, rice and wheat, because of a combination of commodity speculation, hoarding, rising crude oil prices, and climate change induced weather disruptions. An extraordinarily high proportion of rural and urban poor faces serious food insecurity. Peak oil – the plateauing and then decline of crude oil production, worldwide – will sharply worsen the situation, as even in India agriculture is getting increasingly dependent on fossil fuels, used in agricultural inputs, in diesel for pumps and in transporting food to cities. Some experts believe that production of conventional crude oils has already peaked worldwide. It is becoming increasingly essential for communities in urban areas to come together to engage in urban agriculture, particularly urban food production. This is however linked to a range of equity issues in urban areas, particularly security of tenure and housing for the poor, and equitable access to water. To discuss the various facets of urban food production – what is feasible, what needs to be done, the remarkable Cuban experience with urban agriculture since the early 1990s, etc, Delhi Platform is organizing this discussion with T. Vijayendra of Hyderabad Platform. Vijayendra is also part of a small collective that has been practising alternative agriculture in Nakre Village, in South Karnataka. This meeting is part of a series of discussions that we have been organizing on issues related to global warming. Past meetings have been on Water; Energy; Coal and its social costs, and most recently on Nuclear Energy and People’s Struggles. The key aims of these discussion meetings are to promote deeper understanding of and engagement with these issues and struggles around them. We urge discussion at such meetings. Do attend and also tell other interested people. Date: 17 March (Thursday) Venue: 196, SFS Hauz Khas, Aurobindo Marg (Focus office) (nearest Metro: Green Park) Time: 5.30-8 pm Delhi Platform For any further information, please contact us at the following numbers: 9213763756 (Soumya Dutta), 9818065092 (Kiran Shaheen), or 9910476553 (Nagraj Adve) -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
