President's Corner
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations – commonly referred to as CAFOs – have become an important, if not controversial, component of industrial farming throughout the world. CAFOs are often praised for the efficient way in which animals can be raised, slaughtered, and their protein delivered to a hungry world. But they also raise concerns about environmental pollution and, in particular, animal cruelty. What do we know about CAFOs? Are they the future of animal protein production, or will they be irrelevant in a world of test-tube meat?
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Council Corner
IRSA Council member Professor Lutgarda Tolentino moves to new position at WorldFish
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Conferences and meetings
World Congress of Rural Sociology, Toronto, Canada, August 2016
European Society for Rural Sociology, Florence Italy, July-August 2013
Annual meeting Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, USA, April 2013
Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, North Carolina, USA, March 2013
Prior congresses, conferences and meetings
Early conference information
The next IRSA Congress is to be held in Toronto, Canada, in August 2016 (dates are still tentative).
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Forthcoming Conferences:
The XXV Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology will be held in Florence, Italy, from 29 July – 1 August 2013. For more information please visit the website:
http://www.florenceesrs2013.com/.
Forthcoming Conferences
The ‘making alternative food networks work: hitching the horse of critique to the wagon of improvement’ conference will be held in Los Angeles, California, 9-13 April 2013.
This is the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers and the organisers are keen to receive papers on how alternative food networks are making a difference locally and globally.
More information is available at the
AAG Annual Meeting website:
call for papers
On the 22-24 March 2013, the Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, will host the 36th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference. The theme is ‘Communities in Action, Landscapes in Change’. Information is available at:
http://www.appalachianstudies.org/content/conference.
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