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Lois Engelberger of the Island Food Community of Pohnpei has kindly agreed for us to publish her thoughts on the 19th International Congress of Nutrition.
I would like to share about our participation in the 19th International Congress of Nutrition (ICN), October 4-9, 2009, in Bangkok, Thailand, as part of the global health project, led by Professor Harriet Kuhnlein, Centre of Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment (CINE)/McGill University, and the CINE team.
The ICN was a huge event with 4560 delegates from 107 countries! Our oral presentations were on October 8, at the Symposium of Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems and Nutrition: Finding Solutions in Local Cultures and Environments, and were enthusiastically received.
I am happy to report that I wore my “Let’s Go Local” t-shirt and shared about the “Go Local” initiative.
Dr. Barbara Burlingame, Senior Nutrition Officer of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, also presented our Pohnpei Banana posters in her talk on food composition and biodiversity. This is an honor for Pohnpei! Thank you Barbara!
Also what a great privilege for Podis Pedrus and Kiped Albert, community leaders of Mand, Pohnpei, FSM, and myself to participate in the Satellite Workshop on Culture, Environment and Agriculture for Food and Nutrition Security of Indigenous Peoples, held 11-15 October in Thailand, supported by …