Workshop on the Sustainability of the World's Food and Farming Systems

Date: 

Thursday, September 17, 2015, 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153

“Why Do Americans Consume So Much More Food–and Fuel–Compared to Europeans and the Japanese?”

Speaker:

Robert PaarlbergFaculty Associate. Betty Freyhof Johnson Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College; Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Contact:

Heather Conrad
hconrad@wcfia.harvard.edu

Chair:

Robert PaarlbergFaculty Associate. Betty Freyhof Johnson Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College; Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Robert Paarlberg’s new book is titled The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism (Oxford University Press, 2015).