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Hungry for Justice: Food Sovereignty in the Biotech Era / Devinder Sharma
ABOUT THE TALK:
How do agribusiness technologies, government food policy and free trade organizations generate inequalities in global food production and distribution? What alternatives can we imagine that would empower rather than exploit small-scale farmers and landless agricultural workers? Devinder Sharma will trace for us the corporatization of agriculture and discuss ways in which food sovereignty might be realized.
DEVINDER SHARMA is an acclaimed journalist and thinker whose research attempts to uncover how corporate agriculture, GMO technology, food patents, biopiracy, and free trade policies, exacerbate global poverty and famine and disenfranchise small-scale farmers in the developing world. He is a vocal critic of profit-driven agriculture, and an authority on the politics and economics of food production and distribution. His writings and lectures offer alternatives to promote food security, biodiversity, local self-sufficiency, and sustainable agricultural practices. Founder of the Chakriya Vikas Foundation in India, Sharma has helped realize a socio-economic transformation based on sustainable agriculture practices in almost a hundred villages in the poverty stricken belt of Bihar, in north India. He is a regular contributor to ZNET and his recent works include:
GATT and India: The Politics of Agriculture
GATT to WTO: Seeds of Despair
In the Famine Trap
Keeping the Other Half Hungry (forthcoming)
Date: 11/21/2004
Location: MIT Room 35-225
Time: 3:00 pm
Directions: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=35-225
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