Questions-Education & Agriculture

1. How will governments’ increased preference for nuclear power affect women around the world?

2. What is status of emergency and disaster relief systems worldwide? (The US government's success rate in rehabilitating victims of Hurricane Katrina, disaster relief for victims of tsunami?)

3. How are food coops changing the balance of power between multinationals and small farmers in the United States?

4. What kinds of contributions are third world women making to support conservation movements in their communities?

www.ardinc.com/projects/project.php?id=5&tid=505

Greenbelt Movement in Kenya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Belt_Movement, http://www.lanternbooks.com/detail.html?id=159056040X

5. What is the controversy behind Genetically modified food, and what is the organic food movement? In what ways are ordinary American women supporting sustainable agriculture in the United States?

6. How are women around the world supporting green fuel?

7. How are women in developing countries mobilizing against eco-harmful development projects?

8. How are women in post-conflict countries still dealing with the effects of biological and chemical warfare?

9. How have multinational agri-businesses affected women’s quality of life in developing countries? (their access to land, effects of pesticides: http://www.earthsummit2002.org/wcaucus/Caucus%20Position%20Papers/agriculture/pestices1.html)

10. What impact have global-warming related weather patterns had on women in the developing world?

11. What is Mother Earth and how did that name come to be?