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- Fast Food for Thought 2026
Talk Description: Join Food Literacy for All’s 10th annual “Fast Food for Thought,” where 10 interdisciplinary UM faculty and staff gave 5-minute talks related to food and agriculture. This event was livestreamed as a Zoom Webinar and held in person… Read more: Fast Food for Thought 2026 - Kristina Villa and Ian McSweeney: The Farmers Land Trust and the Farmland Commons
Talk Description: Hear about the history and work of The Farmers Land Trust, a national organization working to support farmland protection, transition, and secure access for farmers through the innovative Farmland Commons model, which decommodifies land by placing it in… Read more: Kristina Villa and Ian McSweeney: The Farmers Land Trust and the Farmland Commons - Pedro Ferraracio Charbel on Solidarity Kitchens in Brazil: Fighting Hunger and Building Change
Talk Description: The talk provides a general overview of the Homeless Workers Movement (MTST), the biggest urban social movement in Brazil, and its revolutionary Solidarity Kitchens. Within a broader analysis of Brazil’s political and social context, we explore how, besides… Read more: Pedro Ferraracio Charbel on Solidarity Kitchens in Brazil: Fighting Hunger and Building Change - Book Talk: Life and Death of the American Worker by Alice Driver
Session Description: Alice Driver is a James Beard Award-winning investigative journalist from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. She is the author of Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company (One Signal Publishers,… Read more: Book Talk: Life and Death of the American Worker by Alice Driver - Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe on The Foundation of Food: The Science and Politics of Our Changing Soils
Session Description: Climate change and food security are connected in many ways, and both are underlain by soil. Close to 1 billion people globally lack food and nutritional security, and the soil resources needed to produce food are being degraded… Read more: Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe on The Foundation of Food: The Science and Politics of Our Changing Soils
