By Distinguished Professor and IIS Research Associate Dr Mark Lapping from the University of Southern Maine Date: Thursday March 18, 2010 Time: noon – 1PM Location: Main Building Faculty Lounge, UPEI Professor Lapping of the University will give a public talk about food security as it relates to rural areas, land use policy and community planning. He has been working on food security issues for close to 20 years and is currently working on a project in Cumberland County, Maine, to identify vulnerable populations, assess their levels of food insecurity and develop a plan to tie them together with food banks, farmers, farmers’ markets and other agencies to address food insecurity problems. He is also part of a group that is working to establish a system of community foundations to handle what will be over the next 20 years one of the largest transfers of land wealth in American history.