September 3 - 5, 2010
Soil Not Oil: Securing Food Security through Organic Farming in Times of Climate Change

In the wake of the recent failure of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, this course has become all the more relevant. Eating oil is used at various stages of agriculture; and fossil fuels are at the heart of industrial agriculture. They cause pollution of the soil, air and water.

2010 has been declared as The International year of Biodiversity (IYB) by the UN to celebrate the life on planet Earth and its said that throughout the year there will be countless initiatives organized to disseminate information, promote the protection of biodiversity and encourage organizations, institutions, companies and individuals to take direct action to reduce the constant loss of biological diversity worldwide.