Feast Or Famine Learn about What the Food Industry is doing RIGHT

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Feast Or FamineLearn about What the Food
Industry is doing RIGHT !

• An Institute for 21st Century Agriculture
  production.
• Produced by Capital Media Group, Inc
• and the University of Wisconsin -Madison

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Feast Or Famine Program Mission Statement

• Feast Or Famine national/international TV
  program takes an in-depth look into the
  challenges of feeding the world and protecting
  public health. We investigate the advancements
  in agricultural, food processing and
  environmental sciences from the research and
  discoveries of our leading global experts. Feast
  Or Famine is a non-profit educational program
  focused on improving education and disseminating
  accurate scientific information. Each program is
  shot on locations and consists of expert
  interviews from the most respected scientific
  organizations, thought leaders and award winning
  scientists the world has to offer.
• Providing a nonpartisan topical format that
  tackles the most important and debated issues
  across multiple Ag related industries, Feast or
  Famine extends equal opportunity to each party
  weighing in on the topic. Feast or Famine gets to
  the Root of the issues and provides answers for
  improvements and solutions moving forward.

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• The Voice of America, which first went on the
  air in 1942, is a multimedia international
  broadcasting service funded by the U.S.
  government through the Broadcasting Board of
  Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,000 hours
  of news, information, educational, and cultural
  programming every week to an estimated worldwide
  audience of more than 115 million people.
• VOA Facts
• Audience  more than 115 million weekly
• Media  radio, television, and the Internet
• Headquarters  Washington, D.C.
• Languages  44
• Employees  more than 1,100
• Mission  To broadcast accurate, balanced, and
  comprehensive news and information to an
  international audience.
• Facilities  27 radio broadcast studios, 33
  production and recording studios, 30 professional
  audio mixing and dubbing stations, 4 television
  studios, 20 video editing suites, and facilities
  for master control, recording, scheduling, and
  feed intake.
• History  Broadcasts began in 1942, as a response
  to the need of peoples in closed and war-torn
  societies for reliable news.
• VOA has a growing worldwide network of more than
  1,200 local affiliate stations, which include FM
  and medium wave (MW or AM) radio stations,
  television stations and networks, and cable
  systems. www.voa.gov

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• ResearchChannel is a nonprofit media and
  technology organization that connects a global
  audience with the research and academic
  institutions whose developments, insights and
  discoveries affect our lives and futures.
  ResearchChannel was founded in 1996 by leading
  research and academic institutions so they could
  share the work of their researchers with the
  public while collectively participating in
  advanced distribution and interactive technology
  experiments. Programs are shared in their
  original form, unmediated and without
  interruption. Today, more than 50 institutions
  participate as members and affiliates, and that
  number continues to grow.
• Through cable and satellite distribution,
  ResearchChannel is available to more than 25
  million U.S. households. The ResearchChannel
  website, with users in over 70 countries
  worldwide, provides programs on demand and
  through a live webstream. The online video
  library houses more than 3,000 full-length
  programs.
• Each year ResearchChannel presents nearly 350
  new programs produced by leading education and
  research institutes. Programs on ResearchChannel
  appeal to a wide variety of general and niche
  audiences.  It reaches business, education and
  research communities worldwide and a growing
  global audience of curious and thoughtful viewers
  through online, on-air and on-demand distribution
  formats.

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About the Non-ProfitInstitute for 21st Century
Agriculture MISSION STATEMENT

• The Institute for Twenty-First Century
  Agriculture is part of the non-profit Center For
  Global Food Issues and was established to examine
  global agricultural and land use policies and
  practices
• The Institute for Twenty-First Century
  Agriculture and CGFIs aim to improve farmers
  and the publics understanding of the new global
  farm economy and heighten awareness of the
  environmental impacts of various farming systems
  and food policies
• The Institute for Twenty-First Century
  Agriculture is committed to developing
  recognition, communication, education,
  understanding and co-operation within society to
  sustainably provide for humanitys needs while
  safeguarding the environment and wild ecosystems

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The Institute for Twenty-First Century
Agriculture is a non-profit organization which

• 1. Encourages public understanding of modern
  agriculture and the global food system
• 2. Establishes communications networks between
  farmers, agricultural researchers, policy makers,
  and the public
• 3. Co-ordinates, and liaises with other related
  agricultural and food science groups
• 4. Establishes a nationally and internationally
  respected reputation with the public, commercial
  organizations, and government bodies
• 5. Supports the development and use of modern,
  science-based methods for assessing the
  performance of cropping and livestock systems
• 6. Promotes and helps develop programs to
  increase awareness of the connection between
  agricultural productivity and environmental
  conservation
• 7. Combats efforts to limit technological
  innovation and adoption in agriculture, which is
  the foundation for agricultural sustainability

• 8. Encourages responsible agricultural resource
  utilization and environmental stewardship
• 9. Encourages and supports agricultural research
  and extension in developing countries for
  humanitarian and ecological reasons
• Invited to hundreds of speaking engagements over
  the past decade, nationally and internationally
• Included in hundreds of newspaper and magazine
  columns, including a weekly syndicated column
  distributed to Knight-Ridder newspapers, USA
  Today, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, St.
  Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Science Monitor,
  Atlantic Monthly
• Makes dozens of radio and television appearances,
  including PBS Technopolitics, ABC News 20/20,
  CNNfn, Fox News, and Showtime

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Feast Or Famine is an educational program
developed with an professional advisory board.
Feast or Famine will help provide both
educational content and experts data. Capital
Media Group is the creator and producer of this
program but relies on the experts for facts and
content.
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About the TV Producers

• Capital Media Group Inc (CMG) is a rich-media
  communications and TV production company. Our
  expertise include professional television
  production, educational programs and videos,
  streaming media, commercials, and creative
  concept development. CMG leverages many venues
  including national and international TV
  broadcast, the internet, and has unique closed
  circuit broadcast relationships to target
  specific audiences in order to disseminate
  content.
• The team at Capital Media Group has been involved
  in productions for corporations, organizations
  and broadcast networks for the past 25 years,
  utilizing the newest generation HD program
  production equipment and digital editing systems.

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Feast Or Famine Board of Advisors

• Norman Borlaug
• 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
• Texas AM and the International Maize and Wheat
  Improvement Center, Mexico
• (first to point out land-saving impact of Green
  Revolution, lead signer of
• High Yield Conservation Declaration)
• Dr. Gary Lake
• University of Wisconsin Madison
• Agriculture and Food Production Expert for
  National Geographic, NBC Madison.
• Vaclav Smil
• Distinguished Professor
• University of Manitoba
• Author  Feeding the World  A Challenge for the
  21st Century

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Board of Advisors continued

• Dennis Avery
• Executive Director
• Institute for 21st Century Agriculture
• Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute
• PO Box 202, Churchville, VA 24421
• Alex Avery
• Director of Research
• Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute
• Pir Pinstrup-Anderson
• 2001 World Food Prize winner
• Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition and Public
• Policy, Cornell University Former
  Director-General of
• the International Food Policy Research Institute
• Washington, D.C.

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Board of Advisors Continued
Patrick Moore Co-founder of Greenpeace President,
Greenspirit Enterprises
Dr. John Hassell Executive Director Conservation
Tillage Information Center Lafayette, IN
Mark Hertlein Bioexpert Insect Management
Control Dow Agro-sciences Indianapolis, IN
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A letter from the Institute for 21st Century
Agriculture Executive Director, Dennis Avery

• This is a special invitation to your company.
  Your company is recognized by the CGFI as one
  that plays a vital role in todays global food
  system and cares for the environment and the
  welfare of our planet.
• The CGFI is recognized as a premier organization
  in communicating the benefits of todays modern,
  high-yield farming systems for both providing
  higher quality and safer diets to humanity as
  well as safeguarding wild ecosystems from
  conversion to agriculture through efficient
  resource use.
• The CGFIs goal to educate the world about
  critical environmental and agricultural issues
  will be embraced in this new TV series entitled
  Feast or Famine.
• You can help us meet these objectives by
  becoming a Feast Or Famine Sponsor. We can help
  you as well. CGFI has developed a strong
  sponsorship package focused on providing our
  sponsors with abundant recognition for their
  support and an opportunity to gain name
  recognition with our viewers.
• Sincerely,
• Dennis Avery, Executive Director
• Institute for 21st Century Agriculture

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Feast Or Famine Sponsorship

• Feast Or Famines sponsorship goal is to help
  increase your name recognition, increase public
  awareness regarding the important topics covered
  on the program related to the food industry and
  enhance exposure of our sponsors branded image.
  We also want to have our sponsors share the
  mission of our program to improve distribution of
  scientifically accurate information and generate
  better understanding about the food industry.

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Feast Or Famine

• For more information contact one of our
  producers
• Capital Media Group, Inc
• 561-347-6307
• www.CMGHD.com