A UC Davis conference exploring the natural, human and global resources of the new century is scheduled March 27-29, 2000. Soil, Food and People: A Biointensive Model for the New Century is being presented by Ecology Action, the California-based global program for sustainable farming. Co-sponsors include UC Davis’s University Extension, UNICEF, the Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture, CARE International, the Columbia Foundation, the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, the Hearst Corporation, and chef and community food systems activist Alice Waters.

Speakers include John Jeavons, director of Ecology Action; William Lacy, vice provost for Outreach and International Programs at UC Davis; Louise Jackson, UC Davis vegetable crops; Jeff Mitchell, UC Kearney Agricultural Center; Ariena Van Bruggen, UC Davis plant pathology; Kate Clancy, Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture; Joan Dye Gussow, Teachers College, Columbia University; Raoul Robinson, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization; Hope Shand, Rural Advancement Foundation International; Kent Whealy, Seed Savers Exchange; Leonard Diggs, Sonoma County organic farmer; Mas Masumoto, California farmer and writer; Marty Strange, Center for Rural Affairs, Nebraska; Peter Rosset, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy; Kate Scow, UC Davis soil microbiology; Juan Manuel Martinez Valdez, Ecology Action-Mexico/Latin America, and others.

A poster session is scheduled; the deadline is Jan. 14, 2000. For more information on conference registration contact University Extension, 1333 Research Park Dr., University of California, Davis, CA 95616-4852; Tel: (800) 752-0881; Fax: (530) 757-8558.