Food Regimes and Food Movements: Tides of Transformation" with Eric Holt-Giménez

Over one billion people go hungry in a world that produces 1½ times more than enough food to feed everyone. In the United States - the richest and most productive country in the world - one in seven people are food insecure. Most of the food insecure work in the food industry itself. Contrary to popular belief (and the insistence of most of our politicians and multilateral agencies) hunger is not caused by scarcity but by injustice. How does the food regime create hunger and food insecurity in the midst of abundance? Can we end the injustices that cause hunger? Who is working to keep the system in place, who is working to reform it and who hopes to transform it altogether? This engaging seminar looks at the political economy of food and the influential potential of social movements.