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YOU ARE INVITEDTO A PUBLIC FORUM
Crops, Cars &Climate Crisis
 

The Global Impactsof Growing Biofuels on Food, Farmers, and Human Rights

Featuring special guests from
Canada, Columbia, Argentina and the United Kingdom.

The corporate"agrofuels" gold-rush has ignited a major global conflict.Governments across the world are committing to agrofuels as a part oftheir energy strategies. But producing crops for fuel is already changingworld agriculture, with major consequences for people, ecosystems, andthe planet.


Monday  April 28

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Rodd Charlottetown Hotel, 75 Kent Street, Charlottetown

Part
of a 6-city tour (Charlottetown, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Halifax,Ottawa, Montreal)



Free admission.        Everyonewelcome.       Wheelchair accessible.


For Information:www.cban.ca/agrofuels or613.241.2267



Presented by:Beyond Factory
Farming, Canadian Biotechnology Action
Network, ETC Group,Food
Action Committee - Ecology Action Centre Halifax,Inter Pares,National Farmers Union, P.E.I. Coalitionfor a GMO-Free Province, Earth Action (PEI), Council of Canadians PEIChapter, PEI Health Coalition,Partnership Africa Canada,The Ram's Horn,USC Canada, andUnion Paysanne.