[getsmart-l] Food Movements and Alliances: Toward Justice and Sovereignty - Mar. 12, 2:30 pm

[John O'Gorman]

UCGS Colloquium "Food Movements and Alliances: Toward Justice and
Sovereignty"

Date: Wednesday March 12, 2008
Time: 2:30 - 4:30
Room: 305 York Lanes, York University

Organizers: Lauren Baker and Deborah Barndt
Chair: Deborah Barndt (Professor, Environmental Studies, York)
Panelists: Raj Patel (Visiting Scholar, Center for African Studies,
University of California at Berkeley), Lauren Baker (PhD Candidate,
Environmental Studies, York), Harriet Friedmann (Professor, Department of
Sociology, University of Toronto), and Sally Miller (Food Writer and
Researcher)

In response to growing social inequality, environmental crises and health
concerns there has been a proliferation of movements and alliances working
on food and agriculture issues over the past decade. These transnational
efforts offer a window into the politics of food from seed to table.
Focusing on food alliances and movements in Canada, the U.S., Mexico,
South Africa and India - this panel will examine diverse strategies for
confronting corporate control of the food system, tensions between
localization and globalization of food movements, the challenges of
building alliances across differences, and new cultural, economic, and
ecological practices emerging in food alternatives worldwide.

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ABOUT THE CONSORTIUM
The University Consortium on the Global South <http://www.ucgs.yorku.ca/>
(UCGS) is an inter-unit initiative based at York University that encourages
academic engagement with the Global South, broadly defined. Its initiators,
most of which have been working with a particular regional focus (e.g.,
Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Canada, Middle East),
recognize that problems and issues increasingly transcend such regional
boundaries. In addition to the Colloquium, other activities are organized
during the academic year, including seminars and workshops.

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