Smallholder Farming and Permaculture in Taiwan, China Lecture Spring-Summer Session Opens 4/20 at Wenshan Community College
Smallholder Farming and Sustainable Taiwan Lecture Series -- Speaker Lineup and Schedule
In spring and summer, as we focus on the recently heated US beef issue, let Professor Chen Chi-chung and Professor Chan Chang-chuan take us deeper into the different dimensions involved in lean-meat US beef.
Deputy Director Hu Chung-yi, Professor Chen Yu-hui and Professor Chang Wei-chi let us begin to discover how agriculture-related policies, subsidies and food and agriculture education are connected to our society.
[2012 Spring-Summer Sessions]
Venue: Taipei City Wenshan Community College - Jingmei Junior High School
4/20 (Fri) 1900-2100 Chen Chi-chung (Distinguished Professor, Department of Applied Economics, National Chung Hsing University)
5/4 (Fri) 1900-2100 Hu Chung-yi (Deputy Director, Department of Farmland Water Conservancy, Council of Agriculture)
5/18 (Fri) 1900-2100 Chan Chang-chuan (Professor, Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, National Taiwan University)
6/1 (Fri) 1900-2100 Chen Yu-hui (Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, National Taiwan University)
6/22 (Fri) 1900-2100 Chang Wei-chi (Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Cultural Resources, National Hsinchu University of Education)
Venue: Pingtung County Green Vitality Industry Exchange Promotion Association–Pingtung County Gaoshu Township Life Reconstruction Service Center
5/19 (Sat) 1400-1600 Su Wei-shi (Attending Physician, Quan Jia United Clinic)
"Eat lean meat, not lean leanness–A brief discussion of the right to choose ”good” food"
[2012 International Peasant Exchange Forum]
The global grassroots agrarian movement–La Via Campesina will visit Taiwan, China at the end of May; this time it includes: Asian regional youth cadres, representatives of the Indonesian Peasant Union (SPI), and the Korean Women Peasant Association (KWPA).
5/26 (Sat) 1900-2100 Hsinchu Erchongpu Exchange with the Agrarian Alliance on anti-land-grabbing experience
5/27 (Sun) 1900-2100 Changhua Xizhou Exchange with the Anti-Central Taiwan Science Park Water-Grabbing Self-Rescue Association on farmers' rights and farmers' resistance experience
5/28 (Mon) 1900-2100 Kaohsiung Meinong Introduction to Indonesian and Korean agrarian movement organizations
5/29 (Tue) 1900-2100 Yilan Smallholder farming and local life experience
5/30 (Wed) 1900-2100 Taipei Free trade and US beef
*Each lecture will be recorded and uploaded online as teaching material for subsequent online lectures.
*For detailed lecture information, please keep following the Taiwan Rural Front websitehttp://www.todei.org/ and the Wenshan Community College website. There are also southern sessions, so stay tuned!
- Contact person: 02-2322-3120 [email protected] Ms. Ding
- Organizers: Taiwan Rural Front, NCCU Third Sector Research Center, Taipei City Wenshan Community College, Kaohsiung City Qimei Community College
- Online registration website:http://goo.gl/0K28n