Clinton, Yale Invite Will Allen to Speak

On Friday, Feb. 13, at the allurement of President Bill Clinton, Growing Power architect and CEO Will Allen will allotment the belvedere at the University of Texas at Austin with, a allotment of others, added Drew Barrymore, for a console altercation blue-blooded "The Future of Food."

Milwaukee, WI (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 10, 2009 -- This will be a active weekend for Will Allen, architect and CEO of Milwaukee's Growing Power Inc.

Will Allen at Growing Power

support analysis and bookish analysis accompanying to aliment and agriculture It's appealing bright that food, authentic and simple, is not accepting taken for accepted anymore Conferences like these, sponsored by some of the a lot of important institutions in the world, advance it has assuredly sunk in: We charge to abode ache as a all-around threat. On Friday, Feb. 13, at the allurement of President Bill Clinton, Allen will allotment the belvedere at the University of Texas at Austin with, a allotment of others, added Drew Barrymore, for a console altercation blue-blooded "The Future of Food." In the admirers will be 1,000 academy acceptance and 200 university presidents and chancellors from institutions above the nation.

After that session, Allen will jet home just in time to about-face about and appointment Yale University in New Haven, Conn., for a appropriate abode Monday to the faculty, acceptance and guests of the Yale Sustainable Food Project.

The Austin appointment is billed as a appropriate absolute affair of the Clinton Global Initiative, which is sponsored by the Clinton Foundation. Allen and others will abode issues of aliment aegis and aliment amends in a apple threatened by bread-and-butter and political upheaval, all-around warming, bottleneck and anachronistic aliment policies.

The adjudicator for the altercation is Raj Shah, the administrator of agronomical development for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Other panelists cover Barrymore, who has been called an Ambassador Against Hunger to the U.N. World Food Programme; Emma Clipinger, a apprentice at Brown University; Peter McPherson, admiral of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; and blur administrator Morgan Spurlock.

The Yale Sustainable Food Project directs programs that "support analysis and bookish analysis accompanying to aliment and agriculture," and aswell manages a acceptable dining affairs and an amoebic acreage on the Yale campus.

"It's appealing bright that food, authentic and simple, is not accepting taken for accepted anymore," Allen said. "Conferences like these, sponsored by some of the a lot of important institutions in the world, advance it has assuredly sunk in: We charge to abode ache as a all-around threat."

Growing Power Inc. (www.growingpower.org) is a civic non-profit and acreage assurance that operates association aliment centers in Milwaukee and Chicago and provides training in burghal agronomics about the world. Allen is the champ of a 2008 McArthur Foundation "Genius Grant."

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