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WOMEN AND JUST SUSTAINABILITY

Carolyn Sachs
Head of Department of Women's Studies,
Professor of Rural Sociology and Women's Studies
Penn State University

Breaking New Ground:  Women and Sustainable Agriculture

November 4, 2009
CUB 260
7:30 p.m. 

Dr. Sachs' research examines issues of gender and agriculture and gender and environmental issues.  She is currently working on a project that focuses on gender and the food system exploring gendered work in the food system from farm to table. Her extension and outreach interests include working with the Pennsylvania Women's Agriculture Network (PAWAgN) to provide hands-on agricultural, entrepreneurship, and leadership training.  She is also engaged in a comparative international project on gender and climate change in India in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization.  Dr. Sachs serves on an expert panel to the UN on Gender, Water, and Sanitation. 

Co-sponsored by EPACC, the Departments of Economics, Environmental Studies, French and Italian, History, Visual Arts, and Peace and Justice Studies.