#  Workshop on the Sustainability of the World's Food and Farming Systems 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 17, 2015** 

 04:00PM - 05:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153**  



 

 



 

## “Why Do Americans Consume So Much More Food–and Fuel–Compared to Europeans and the Japanese?”

### Speaker:

**Robert Paarlberg**, *Faculty Associate*. Betty Freyhof Johnson Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College; Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

### Contact:

**Heather Conrad**  
<hconrad@wcfia.harvard.edu>

### Chair:

**Robert Paarlberg**, *Faculty Associate*. Betty Freyhof Johnson Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College; Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

Robert Paarlberg’s new book is titled *The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism* (Oxford University Press, 2015).



 

 



 

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- [ Workshop on the Sustainability of the World's Food and Farming Systems ](/event-categories/workshop-sustainability-worlds-food-and-farming-systems)
 
 

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