Agriculture, Food & Fiber

Speakers cover growing, raising, catching, collecting, buying, selecting, preparing and eating or using food and fiber more sustainably, more healthfully, and more humanely. They also cover the problems and issues arising from current practices, including soil loss and degradation, pesticide and chemical exposure, water, soil and air pollution, fossil fuel consumption and related impacts, water waste, overpumping of aquifers, damage to river, wetland and ocean habitats, greenhouse gas emissions, disease and other human health problems, collapse of fisheries, species extinctions, and cruelty to animals.

Sustainable Eating. Eating to have a lower environmental footprint and be more sustainable. Includes food selection, buying choices, preparation, and disposal of food and packaging wastes. More >>

Food & Agriculture. Covers farming and ranching issues, methods, and impacts, conservation of agricultural land, choice of foods, vegetarian diets, organic food, fishing, fishery protection, aquaculture, and related issues. See Lester Brown, Dan Dagget, Susan Sokol Blosser, Kate Troll, Steve Brill, Jim Motavalli, Rae Sikora, Annie Bond, Medard Gabel, Lisa Kivirist, John Ivanko, and Josh Tickell.

Community & Home Food Gardening. Includes community and home food gardening, organic gardening, and permaculture. Also covers organizing and running community gardens. See Amy Stewart, David Blume, Allen Green, Steve Brill, Lisa Kivirist, and John Ivanko.

Food, Nutrition & Health. Speakers cover how to select and prepare food that promotes health and good nutrition, and how that also tends to be healthier and more sustainable for the planet. See Matt Levine, Laura Stec, and David Blume.

Organic & Natural Food & Cooking. Understanding, locating, evaluating, buying, cooking, and serving organic and natural foods. See Matt Levine, Laura Stec, Lisa Kivirist, John Ivanko, and Annie Bond.

Vegetarian Diets. Vegetarian diets can have a wide range of environmental and health benefits. In addition, vegetarianism avoids complicity with the factory methods of animal raising and slaughter that many find cruel and morally indefensible. See Jim Motavalli, Laura Stec, Jay Weinstein, Rae Sikora, Lisa Kivirist, and David Blume.

Fisheries Management, Protection & Restoration. Overfishing is strip mining the oceans. Destructive fishing technologies are damaging ocean ecosystems. Critical fishery areas are being damaged by pollution, global warming, and other assaults. Without a concerted campaign to protect and restore fisheries, a growing number will decline or collapse. See David Helvarg and Wil Burns.

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We are constantly on the lookout for the best new speakers on all aspects of Food & Fiber… speakers with the most important ideas and the most dynamic presentations. We are also always open to ideas for new Food & Fiber related topics. Send us your speaker or topic suggestions .

Related Topics Coming Soon…

We are working now on new topic pages in the areas listed below. They will be added here as they become available.

Greening Agriculture
Agribusiness, Chemical & Oil Intensive Farming & Livestock
Farming & Ranching
Farmland & Ranchland Land Protection
Soil Conservation & Restoration
Organic Farming & Livestock
Organic Fiber
Food & Water Shortages
Agricultural Water Conservation
Agricultural Pollution Prevention
Growing & Harvesting Biofuels
Food Vs. Biofuels
GMOs: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology
Organic Gardening
Permaculture
Slow Food
Animal Protection & Animal Cruelty
Food Recycling
CSAs - Community Supported Agriculture
Greening Food Services & Cafeterias