Wednesday, 10 April 2013

FW: Oxfam speaker in Birmingham

Land and Food
Wednesday April 17th at 7pm
George Fox room, the Priory Rooms, Quaker Meeting House, Bull Street, Birmingham B4 6AF. (http://www.theprioryrooms.co.uk/page/location)
Drinks and light refreshments will be available from 6.30pm.

Ruth Kelly of Oxfam will present the topic, with a response from Jubilee Debt Campaign and others. She is an economic policy adviser working on Oxfam's GROW campaign and on policy recommendations to help ensure that everybody in the world has enough to eat. She works on policy responses to the causes and consequences of high and volatile food prices, specifically challenging biofuels policies and working to prevent land grabs.