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2014 HNGR Symposium

From the Ground Up: Social Movements and Soil Improvement

2014 HNGR Symposium

The theme of the 2014 Symposium in Human Needs and Global Resources sponsored by the John Deere Foundation was From the Ground Up: Social Movements and Soil Improvement and focused on the factors that start, spread, stifle, and transform initiatives to conserve and improve soils. The 2014 Symposium was held on February 27-28. 

Speakers included Craig Sorley, an environmental missionary from Kenya who was named among TIME magazine’s 2008 Heroes of the Environment; Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, Executive Director of A Rocha Peru; and Prof Norman Uphoff, Director of the Cornell University Institute for Public Affairs, and Professor of Government and International Agriculture. Additional speakers included a panel of growers including the Chicago urban farmers who grow food for Wheaton College’s own cafeteria.

Video recordings of all the symposium events are now available on WETN. 

Craig Sorley: Mobilizing the Church in East Africa towards a Commitment to Land Care: Challenges, Progress, and Potential

 

Panel - Chris Prochot, Grace Ju Miller and Peggy and Jeff Boshart: Voices from the Fields

 

Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel:Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Collaborative Action for Soil Conservation: Examples from the Andean Countries

 

Norman Uphoff: Civil Society Innovation for Unprecedented Improvements in Crop, Land and Water Productivity: A Case Starting from Madagascar

From the Ground Up: Social Movements and Soil Improvement

Thursday, February 27

7:00-8:30pm - "Mobilizing the Church in East Africa towards a Commitment to Land Care:  Challenges, Progress, and Potential"
Craig Sorley (Care of Creation Kenya)
Coray Alumni Gymnasium

Friday, February 28

10:35am - HNGR Chapel
2013 HNGR Interns
Edman Chapel

1:00-2:00 - "Voices from the Fields"
Chris Prochot (Windy City Harvest, Chicago)
Grace Ju Miller (Indiana Wesleyan University)
Peggy and Jeff Boshart
(Peace of Eden Farm, Fort Atkinson, WI)
Coray Alumni Gymnasium

2:00-2:15 - Break

2:15-3:30 - "Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Collaborative Action for Soil Conservation: Examples from the Andean Countries"
Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel (A Rocha Peru)
Coray Alumni Gymnasium

3:30-3:45 - Break

3:45-5:00 - Workshop sessions
"Theology for Farmers" with Craig Sorley (Phelps Room)
"Research for Societal Change" with Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel (Coray)
"Gender and Food Security" with Grace Ju Miller (Parmelee Room)

7:00-8:30 - "Civil Society Innovation for Unprecedented Improvements in Crop, Land and Water Productivity: A Case Starting from Madagascar"
Norman Uphoff (Cornell University Institute for Public Affairs)
Coray Alumni Gymnasium