Public lecture: Food movements, agroecology, and the future of food and farming
Tuesday, December 13, 20117:00pm until 9:00pm De Doelenzaal, University of Amsterdam, Singel 421-427, Amsterdam 1012 WP. (free entrance)
Speakers:
• Tony Weis (Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Western Ontario);
• Miguel Altieri (Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley) and
• Eric Holt-Giménez (Executive Director of Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy).
Tony Weis, (Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Western Ontario and author of The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming) will discuss the economic and environmental problems of the dominant chemical-industrial food system; Miguel Altieri (Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture) will look at the alternatives offered by ecological, small scale, local and urban farming; and Eric Holt-Giménez (Executive Director of Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy, and author of Food Movements Unite!: Strategies to transform our food systems) will look at the emergence of food movements from a global perspective, as well as the divisions between North and South, urban and rural.
This event is co-organised by Transnational Institute (TNI), Institute of Social Studies (ISS) and The Real World Economics group at the University of Amsterdam.
For more information or for media enquiries, please contact: Melissa Wilson (m.wilson@tni.org), Tel: + 31 20 662 66 08