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In February 2009, Deconstructing Dinner descended upon Edmonton for a week of local and global food education. Every year, the University of Alberta hosts International Week, the largest annual extracurricular educational event on campus. International Week "fosters global citizenship through engagement with today's most pressing issues." In its 24th year, the theme was Hungry for Change: Transcending Feast, Famine and Frenzy.
Deconstructing Dinner recorded the event's keynote address, delivered by democracy advocate Frances Moore Lappe.
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Frances Moore Lappé, co-founder, Small Planet Institute (Boston, MA) -- Frances Moore Lappé is a democracy advocate and world food and hunger expert who has authored or co-authored sixteen books. She is the co-founder of three organizations, including Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy and more recently, the Small Planet Institute. In 1987, she received the Right Livelihood Award. Her first book, Diet for a Small Planet, has sold three million copies and is considered to be the first book to present a modern-day approach to more conscientious eating. Her most recent books include Hope's Edge, written with her daughter Anna Lappe, about democratic social movements worldwide and Getting a Grip: Clairty, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad..
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