Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.
They include the continuing rate of deforestation in tropical countries, the need for more sustainable systems of agriculture, and effects of population growth on efforts to combat hunger. Discussion will center on challenges in the Western Hemisphere. The program will be carried throughout the hemisphere by the U.S. Information Agency's WorldNet system. Organized by the U.S. National Committee for World Food Day, a coalition of 450 private voluntary groups, the teleconference is supported by the FAO and U.S. government agencies. With about 400 universities in the Western Hemisphere participating, talk-back from our end isn't likely, though we did get through last year.