Development Seminar

A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi

"Beyond food sovereignty: foundations of a new food system"

Friday, March 22nd
12:00pm - 02:00pm

Anthropology Building, 19 Russell Street, AP246

Around the world, rural social movements have proposed food sovereignty as an alternative system that can solve problems in the global food economy. However, embedded within the idea of food sovereignty are a number of contradictions. In the seminar A Haroon Akram-Lodhi will outline these contradictions and the steps that must be taken if the food system is to be transformed.

Haroon Akram-Lodhi is the author of Hungry for Change: Farmers, Food Justice and the Agrarian Question, newly released by Brunswick/ Fernwood. Haroon Akram-Lodhi is Professor of International Development Studies and Chair of the Department of International Development Studies at Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. He is also an Associated Research Professor of the Academic Unit in Development Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico and Adjunct Professor of Economics in the Master's in Development Practice program at the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, USA.

Here is the link to more info on the new book :  http://www.fernwoodpublishing.ca/Hungry-for-Change/

If you would like to know more about Haroon Akram-Lodhi and his research interests, please visit http://www.trentu.ca/ids/staff_akram.php

The seminar is sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Science. It is co-sponsored by Anthropology, Geography, Political Science, Sociology, and the Comparative and International Development Education Centre at OISE