December 15th at 5:30pm CST - December 15th at 7:00pm CST
Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest
Join author Alan Bjerga for a discussion of his new book, Endless Appetites, that explores global hunger and how to solve the current food crisis. Famine and malnutrition in the Horn of Africa is causing suffering in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya while spiraling food inflation has caused riots and revolution from Egypt in the Middle East to Tunisia in North Africa.
Alan Bjerga grew up on a farm near the town of Motley, Minnesota and was 2010 president of the National Press Club. He covers agricultural policy for Bloomberg News and in 2010-2011 was also the president of the North American Agricultural Journalists.