Claire Hope Cummings

Claire Hope Cummings is an environmental lawyer, and journalist.

Life

She has been an Environmental lawyer for 20 years. She has farmed in California and in Vietnam, in the Mekong Delta. For four years she was an attorney for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Office of General Counsel.^[1]

She has been active in the local food movement in the San Francisco Bay Area, helping to found the Marin County food policy council. She served on the boards of the Earth Island Institute, Food First, and the Elmwood Institute (Center for Ecoliteracy). She advises The Columbia Foundation.

She hosted a radio show on food and farming for Pacifica Radio's, KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California.^[2]

Awards

• 2009 American Book Award
• 2001 Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow
• 2001 Food and Society Policy Fellowship ^[3]

Works

• Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. Beacon Press. March 2008. ISBN 9780807085806. http://books.google.com/books?id=8aiTuzKYZu8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=claire+cummings&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.kohalacenter.org/food/chcummings.htm
2. ^ http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/uncertain-peril
3. ^ http://www.jeffersoninstitute.org/news/2001fellows.shtml

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Author Claire Hope Cummings dishes the dirt on genetically modified food", Grist, Bonnie Powell, 1 Aug 2008
• "A Conversation with Claire Hope Cummings", Cooking Up a Story

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