Winter Speaker Series: Farm and Fable

January 31, 2012 by Louise Livingstone

Alternative Food Supply Systems and Lessons from Australia; Dr. Peter Andrée, This presentation will be about his experience and research in Australia and how some of the lessons learned there may be relevant to agriculture in Ontario. 

Peter Andrée joined the Carleton University political science department in January 2007, after an educational journey from the natural sciences, through philosophy and community development, to environmental studies, geography, and now political science. Prior to arriving at Carleton, he was based in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, undertaking post-doctoral research on rural and food system sustainability in Australia. He completed his PhD in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto in 2004. His first book, on the global politics of regulating genetically-modified crops and foods, was published by University of British Columbia Press in May 2007.

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Stories from the land: Jennifer Davis teaches English and First Nations Studies at Bayside Secondary School and runs a meat goat operation at Firefly Lane Farm, Stirling. She has just completed her Doctorate in Education at Queen's University. Her talk is about what the land teaches us and the value of using stories from the land, told by people who live on the land, in character education for students.