Global food regimes and China - Successful 2nd Agrarian Conversations episode

On 28 April 2021, the  Commodity and land rushes regimes (RRUSHES-5) research project held the first of a series of webinars looking at Global food regimes and China.

The speakers and participants discussed China's relationship to current food regime transitioning, looking particularly at the changing geographies of production, circulation and consumption and at the growing significance of agroecological farming.

They also considered whether this deepening international presence by China portends a new global hegemony and what the implications of this are on local, national and international political struggles for a fairer and kinder agro-food system.

Recordings of the webinar

If you missed the first webinar, or would like to watch it again, click on one of the videos below. The recording is available in English, Spanish and French. Due to a technical issue, the Mandarin recording is unfortunately not available. We apologize for the inconvenience.

About the webinar series

The Agrarian Conversations webinar series is a collective initiative of CASAS, TNI, PLAAS, ICAS, YARA, ERPI, PASTRES, RRUSHES-5 and Journal of Peasant Studies. It aims to address strategic and urgent issues in and in relation to the rural world today.

It is located in the interdisciplinary field of critical agrarian studies, pursues a progressive pluralist tradition in scholar-activism, and committed to diversity. It is internationalist in orientation, with a significant perspective and representation from the Global South.

Despite logistical challenges, the organizers will aspire to run each each episode in multiple languages, and the combination of language will vary depending on the theme. The format is conversational: a brief input from the main speaker, brief intervention from a panel of discussants, and the rest of the time is open plenary (Q&A) discussion. A background paper will be provided in advance to help facilitate a conversational format. All episodes will be recorded and will be uploaded on YouTube.