Michael Hamm will be giving a

lecture entitled “Food and Farm Policy in the United States:

Building the Economy and National Security with Public Health” this

Thursday.

Hamm’s work deals with issues in

policy development, small-scale farm viability, equality in food

access and institutional markets. He currently is the C.S. Mott

Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, head of the C.S. Mott Group

for Sustainable Food Systems at Michigan State University and the

2011-2012 Dean Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair in the College of

Human Sciences at Iowa State. 

Hamm will speak on how food and farm

policy in the United States will affect the economy and national

security.

“I actually think what we’ve seen

and continue to see is that if we’re going to have a sustainable

food system in this country, it’s not just about the production,

and it’s not just about the distribution. It’s also about what

people eat on a daily basis,” Hamm said in a statement.

As part of his Hilton Chair

responsibilities, Hamm with students from a nutrition class at Iowa

State will participate as part of the Iowa Hunger Summit in

October. May 16 to 18 he will be delivering a presentation about

sustaining health in an evolving environment at a Nutrition and

Wellness Research Center conference.

The public lecture will be held at 8

p.m. Thursday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union.