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Elizabeth Yeampierre | “Climate Justice: The Roots Will Weather The Storm”

Feburary 19, 2019 Elizabeth Yeampierre is a internationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney and environmental and climate justice leader of African and Indigenous ancestry born and raised in New York City. She will be spoke about the intersection of climate justice and food systems in this political moment. Her talk discussed what frontline communities need to […]

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Eric Holt-Giménez | “Do Foodies Need to Know About Capitalism?”

January 16, 2018 Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capitalism. This talk will address how our food system and  capitalism co-evolved. Using political economics we will discuss why—even as local, organic, and gourmet food have spread around the world—billions go hungry in the midst of

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Kelly Brownell | “Creating Better Food Policy: The Need for Connection”

“Creating Better Food Policy: The Need for Connection” Food policy affects the lives of all the world’s inhabitants. The ability to feed the world’s population, the preservation of finite resources such as water and arable land, the protection of the environment, and whether the food supply can be safe from food-borne pathogens and threats from

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Wayne Roberts | “Make America’s cities great again: How food policy can heal and overcome deep social divides”

April 4, 2017 One dominant element of the American spirit is positive-ism. How much time do social cause leaders spend promoting the positive, as distinct from opposing the negative? How much energy is invested in being for, not against, making the alternatives visible, viable and actionable? Food is made for actionism, as shown by the

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Ricardo Salvador | “A Healthy, Sustainable, Fair, Humane and Affordable Food System is Within Reach. How You Can Make It Happen”

A Healthy, Sustainable, Fair, Humane and Affordable Food System is Within Reach. How You Can Make It Happen. The U.S. food system has become the model replicated globally. Unfortunately, the system selectively serves those wealthy enough to command its benefits, while perversely creating hunger, chronic disease, environmental damage and suffering for others. Inherently, such a

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