# Symposium Agenda ## expand\_more ## Harvard Food+ Research Symposium on the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society ### Friday, February 27, 2015 Share your thoughts and feedback, and continue the conversation on Twitter: [\#HarvardFoodPlus](https://twitter.com/search?q=#HarvardFoodPlus&src=typd) Opening Remarks, Steven Bloomfield and William Clark **Steven B. Bloomfield**, Executive Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. **William Clark**, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Policy and Human Development, Harvard Kennedy School. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123948426) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-23) Biomass Counts: Regulating CO2 Emissions from Stationary Sources that Use Biomass **Daniel Schrag**, Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment; Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Harvard University.[ Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123948428) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-22) Impacts of Global Environmental Change on Human Nutrition **Samuel S. Myers**, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[ Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123948427) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-21) The Role of Law and Policy Research in Our Food System; Case Study on Food Waste **Emily M. Broad Leib**, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic[ Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123959193) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-20) Food Production and Politics in Africa **Robert H. Bates**, Eaton Professor of Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University.[ Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123959194) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-19) Which Comes First, Overeating or Obesity? **David S. Ludwig**, Director, New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor, Pediatrics, HMS; Professor, Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123959198) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-18) Good Food, Bad Food: the Origins of Culinary Cultures in France and America **Gunnar Trumbull**, Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123959197) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-17) Breeding Water-Conserving Crops: Why Understanding the Physiological Basis of Water Conservation Traits is Helpful **N. Michele (Missy) Holbrook**, Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123963348) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-16) From Pinot to Cabernet: The Future of Good Wine with Climate Change **Elizabeth M. Wolkovich**, Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at the Arnold Arboretum. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123964548) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-15) Development of Empirical Evidence on Diet and Health **Walter C. Willett**, Professor and Chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123964549) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-14) Food and America’s Material Origins **Joyce E. Chaplin**, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, History Department, Harvard University. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/125213100) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-13) Crops and Temperature Extremes: Damage, Prediction, and Adaptation **Peter Huybers**, Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123964550) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-12) The Value of Advice: Evidence from a Mobile-Phone Based Agricultural Advice Service in India **Shawn Cole**, Professor, Harvard Business School; Affiliate of the Poverty Action Lab and the National Bureau of Economic Research. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123967443) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-11) Neighborhood Food Environments and Beyond **Ann Forsyth**, Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Genetic Alternatives to Pesticides, Herbicides, Antibiotics and Antiviral Chemicals **George Church**, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123967444) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-10) Health Impacts of Methylmercury in Fish and Marine Mammals **Elsie Sunderland**, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123967446) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-9) Fat-talk Nation: The Human Costs of America's Fight Against Fat **Susan Greenhalgh**, Professor of Anthropology, Anthropology Department, Harvard University. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123967447) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-8) On Food Law & Food Beliefs **Jacob E. Gersen**, Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of Government, Harvard Law School; Director, the Food Law Lab, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123972498) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-7) Between Two Worlds: Technological Controversy and the Future of Food **Sheila Jasanoff**, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123972499) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-6) Evolving Supply Chains **David E. Bell**, George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Harvard Business School. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123972502) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-5) The Potential for Mobile Agriculture Extension **Michael Kremer**, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Department of Economics, Harvard University. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123972504) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-4) Researching & Communicating Nutrition in the 21st Century **P.K. Newby**, Scientist. Educator. Author. Food Expert. Cook. pknewby.com. Instructor, Harvard Extension School Program in Sustainability and Environmental Management.[](/cvcvcvcv) [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123972505) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-3) Regulating Tomorrow’s World of Meat and Fish **Robert Paarlberg**, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123973119) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-2) Closing Remarks **Ray Goldberg**, George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus, Harvard Business School. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123973120) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research-1) **Robert Paarlberg**, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. [Watch on Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/album/3332120/video/123973121) | [Listen on SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/wcfia/harvard-food-research) ## FOLLOW US ON… [\[\[{"fid":4082596,"view\_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"height":"150","width":"150","style":"width: 50px; height: 50px;","alt":"YouTube logo.","class":"media-element file-default"}}\]\]](https://www.youtube.com/@HarvardWCFIA) Visit our [YouTube](http://YouTube.com/@HarvardWCFIA) channel for videos of special Center events.