[ShareTompkins] Tomorrow: RAJ PATEL: TITLE: A History of Good & Bad Ideas to Feed the World at 7pm 160 Mann Libe

[A Wilson]

A highly recommended speaker and a highly important topic! FREE and  
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Please pass on the info, thanks!

TITLE: A History of Good & Bad Ideas to Feed the World
SPEAKER:   Raj Patel, award winning activist , academic and author of  
‘Stuffed and Starved’

DATE:   Wednesday, October 16th

TIME:     7:00pm

PLACE:    160 Mann

Sponsored by the Food Collective

Bio-statement:
Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist and academic. He  
obtained his PhD in development sociology from Cornell University, has  
worked for the World Bank and WTO, and protested against them around  
the world. He is a       visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for  
African Studies, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of  
Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In addition to  
numerous scholarly publications in economics, philosophy, politics and  
public health journals, he regularly writes for The Guardian. His  
first book was Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World  
Food System and his latest, The Value of Nothing, is a New York Times  
best-seller.


Talk Overview
Humanity produces enough food to feed everyone in the world today, and
yet the world is disfigured by inequality. There are today one and a
half billion people overweight, and one billion are hungry. And it¹s
likely to get worse. We¹ll soon be living in a world of 10 billion
people. The planet can¹t sustain the way that we in the Global North
live, and one doesn¹t need to be a catastrophe theorist to worry about
how we¹ll all get to eat tomorrow. Plans for the future include a
revamp of the Green Revolution, big land deals, and more intensive
farming. Yet while Big Agriculture has plans to profit from 10 billion
mouths, the real solutions for tomorrow¹s hunger will come from the
communities in the Global South that are already producing food,
managing climate change, and fighting poverty in the twenty-first  
century



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