Urban Agriculture and Health for an Urbanizing World: Delusion or Inspiration?

An interdisciplinary panel discussion
Wednesday, April 21
204 Jones Hall- Uptown Campus
12:30 – 2:00 pm

Speakers:
Doug Meffert, DEnv, MBA – Eugenie Schwartz Professor of River and Coastal Studies and Deputy Director, Tulane Center for Bioenvironmental Research: “Ecosystem Services in an Urban Area—and Wetland Restoration and Loss”

Pam Broom, Deputy Director - New Orleans Food and Farm Network: "Growing for Food: Growing Back to Our Roots"

Emilie Taylor, MArch –School of Architecture, Adjunct Instructor: “Food Justice and Design”

Jeanette Bell, Founder – Fleur D’Eden Community Garden: “The Real Dirt on Urban Farming in NOLA: Words from a Community Gardener”

Moderator:
Ann Yoachim, MPH – Institute on Water Resources and Law Policy, Program Manager: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Adjunct Instructor; “Setting the Global Context”

Presented by the Tulane Office of Global Health. For more information, contact: Crysty Skevington at cskeving@tulane.edu.