Hunger, Food & (Agroecological) Alternatives

Co-organized by the Transnational Institute (TNI), the Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS) and the Land Deal Politics Initiatives (LDPI), the Colloquium brought together some of the world’s leading radical thinkers and activists around the issues of food and the future of farming.

Programme and biographies

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Presentations-Powerpoint

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• The Meat of the Global Food Crisis - Tony Weis
• Convergence in Diversity:Food Movements and the transformation of our food systems - Eric Holt-Gimenez
• The Construction of New Markets: China, Brazil and the EU - Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
• The Agroecological revolution in Latin America - Miguel A. Altieri Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8

Video Clips

• Olivier de Schutter: A Tale of Four Hungers Part1 Part2 Part3
• Olivier de Schutter: What is agroecological farming? And why should it be upscaled?
• Olivier de Schutter: Why are GM crops not the solution?
• Robin Broad: Is small scale agroecological farming a realistic alternative to feed the world?
• Robin Broad: What examples do you have of agroecological farming in practice?
• Frances Moore Lappé: What will enable the transition to an agroecological food system?
• Frances Moore Lappé: What is the role of urban and community supported agriculture?
• Jan Douwe van der Ploeg: What is needed to upscale local agroecological farming?
• Jan Douwe van der Ploeg: Who is transitioning to agroecological agriculture? And why?
• Martha Robbins: National Farmers Union (NFU), Canada
• Miguel Altieri: Why is agroecology the solution to hunger and food security?
• Miguel Altieri: How will agroecological farming achieve the necessary scale to feed the world?
• Eric Holt-Giménez: How will the dominant industrial food system solve the problem of hunger?
• Eric Holt-Giménez: What challenges do food and farming movements face going forward?
• Eric Holt-Giménez: Food movements, agroecology, and the future of food and farming
• Tony Weis: What is the ecological hoofprint?
• Tony Weis: What are the possible solutions to environmental problems posed by industrial livestock production?