November 4, 2015
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Daniel G. Aldrich, III, (view video)
University of California Office of the President
Ironies of Poverty Alleviation and Global Food Security
Richard Matthew (view video)
Director, Blum Center of Poverty Alleviation and the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs, School of Social Ecology
"Challenges of Food Security in California: At the Nexus of Climate Change, Water, Energy, and Food"
(view video)
Tu Jarvis, Moderator
Director, UC Davis Blum Center
Jay Famiglietti (16:01)
Professor, UC Irvine
Greg Mitchell (27:44)
Co-Director, California Center for Algae Biotechnology
Stephen Mayfield
Director, UCSD Center for Food and Fuel for the 21st Century
Joshua Viers (47:53)
Director, UC Merced CITRIS Institute
Questions/Answers (1:03:53)
Keynote Address
Yong Chen (view video)
UC Irvine, Professor and Author of Chop Suey, USA
"Food Security in Orange County"
(view video)
Richard Matthew, Moderator
Director, UC Irvine Blum Center
Christina Hall, (5:55)
Director, OC Food Access Coalition
Lara Fisher, (22:00)
Executive Director, South County Outreach
Richard Matthew (view video)
Catalyzing Change
"Advancing Research and Frameworks for Approaching Food Security"
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Tim Galarneau, Moderator (00:24)
Food Systems Education & Research Program Specialist, UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
Saul Halfron (08:40)
Virginia Tech
Janet Poppendieck (25:54)
Policy Director, New York City Food Policy Center
Andy Fisher (44:55)
Executive Director, Community Food Security Coalition
Questions and Answers
(view video)
Redefining the Meaning of Food Quality for Food Security: Insights from Molecular and Genetic Science (view video)
Introduction by Francisco Ayala Professor, UC Irvine (1:16)
Frank L. Meysens (05:40)
Professor, UC Irvine School of Medicine
Hamid M. Said (15:00)
Professor, UC Irvine School of Medicine
Raquel Chamorro-Garcia (33:50)
Assistant Specialist, UC Irvine Developmental and Cell Biology
Amiee Edinger
Associate Professor, UC Irvine Developmental and Cell Biology
Models for Educating the Next Generation
Julius Su (view video )
James Maloney
Community Science Academy, CalTech
Evan Marks (18:41)
Founder and Executive Director, The Ecology Center