USC CANADA

You're Invited!

How can we avoid the looming global food disaster? Find out at a USC Canada World Food Day forum with Canadian author Dr. Evan Fraser.

Date: Friday, October 15
Time: 7:00 p.m. - Come early (6:15) for a meet & greet!
Place: Library & Archives Canada, Atrium, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa

Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

In his new book, Empires of Food, Dr. Evan Fraser chronicles the fate of societies past through the foods they grew, hunted, traded, and ate. These empires all depended on favourable climates and unsustainable farming practices, so when climate change and depleted soils reduced food production, it signalled their ultimate decline. For World Food Day, USC Canada has invited Dr. Fraser to speak about the uncomfortable parallels between those fallen "Food Empires" and our modern global civilization.

A professor of geography at the University of Guelph, Dr. Fraser was Senior Lecturer at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds in the UK last year. Drawing on his research into farming, climate change, and the environment, he will show us where our food system has been, and where it's disastrously headed - unless we make significant changes to strengthen it.

Join us for this public event in the atrium of the Library & Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, in Ottawa. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. and we'll have a variety of local cheeses and ciders on-hand to taste, so come early for a meet & greet. The presentation starts at 7:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information contact Kate Green by email or by Telephone (613-234-6827 x228).