The Environmental Innovations Initiative's Climate 101 series demystifies climate change and its link with a diversity of disciplines. Experts from across Penn share how they think about climate through the lens of their research and teaching, helping to raise our climate literacy and prepare us to tackle one of the planet's greatest challenges: the climate crisis.

Join us for November's Climate 101 event with Brianna Parsons, a Lecturer at Penn Vet and Executive Director of FAIR Farms Gambia, a community-led teaching and research farm using agriculture to improve community health and well-being, where she will talk about Climate Change and Food Security.

With just 1.3% of the US population working in farming, this talk provides an agriculturalist perspective to food security and climate change, drawing on experiences in USA, The Gambia, Senegal, Botswana, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Haiti, China, Europe and beyond. Relevant literature is presented to provide listeners with a 'Food Systems 101'. The talk will conclude by sharing an applied, entrepreneurial methodology to blend science and local knowledge to build effective and sustainable food system change. 

All events are Hybrid, and are held in Annenberg School for Communication, Room 300. Please register below.