OXNARD : College to Join ‘World Food Day’
Oxnard College students will join their counterparts in Canada, Mexico, South America, the Caribbean and the rest of the United States on Friday in a “World Food Day” teleconference to discuss how the world’s growing demand for food threatens biological diversity.
World Food Day, first celebrated in 1981, is now observed each Oct. 16 in more than 150 countries, officials said in a prepared statement. The day marks the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. FAO Director-General Edouard Saouma will open the program in a videotaped greeting beamed via satellite from the agency’s headquarters in Rome.
About 1,000 “receive sites” are expected to participate in the teleconference, which will allow participants to phone in questions to a Washington panel of experts. The teleconference is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon in Room LA-6 of the Oxnard campus. For more information, call Oxnard College social science instructor Desmond Jones at (805) 986-5800, Ext. 1917.
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