Sunday, April 09, 2006

Call for Papers: Our Daily Bread -- What Does it REALLY Cost?

Tufts University Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE) would like to inform you of an interesting opportunity for researchers in the area of food policy:

Sustainable Ventures announces a "Call for Papers" for the Prize,

"Our Daily Bread: What Does It REALLY Cost?"

Cosponsored by the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition.

Sustainable Ventures is offering individual authors or teams a $10,000 prize plus benefits for the study that best measures the true costs of a loaf of bread. The winning study will provide an analytical framework that measures integrated social, environmental and financial performance. By revealing and quantifying hidden costs of a loaf of bread, the framework will help people make more informed choices to protect and restore our world. See the