Farm to Table Academy Saturdays 10am in October at #UCDavis

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Greetings,

In concert with global celebrations of World Food Day on October 16th, the World Food Center’s Institute for Food & Agricultural Literacy (IFAL) will host a four-weekend academy for the general public and campus community discussing current technologies that impact the global food system from farm to table.

Farm to Table Flyer

A session keynote speaker will highlight each topic and will be followed by one or two additional speakers (farmers, students, industry experts) who will give real world examples of the technologies discussed.

October 3rd Improving Regional Food Systems and Community Nutrition

October 10th Developing Crops for a Sustainable Food Supply

October 17th Livestock and Sustainable Agricultural Practices

October 24th Agricultural Innovations

The sessions are FREE; register on Eventbrite for the dates you would like to attend (attendance of all four sessions is highly encouraged): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/farm-to-table-academy-tickets-18439560221.

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen