{"id":387,"date":"2022-05-27T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/agroecology\/?p=387"},"modified":"2022-07-20T19:35:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T19:35:47","slug":"decolonizing-the-food-system-with-raj-patel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/agroecology\/2022\/05\/27\/decolonizing-the-food-system-with-raj-patel\/","title":{"rendered":"Decolonizing the Food System with Raj Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Panelists discuss topics surrounding food justice, climate change, and racism (L to R: Chris Bacon, Raj Patel, Paola Felix, Emily Schwing, and Fernando Fernandez Leiva). Photo credit: Ava Gleicher.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Raj Patel, <\/a>a noted expert in the world food system, delivered the keynote talk for an SCU event on decolonizing the food system to address intertwined problems of hunger, climate change, and racism. He diagnosed the ills of the current food system\u2014citing COVID, climate change, conflict, colonialism, capitalism, and \u201ccraven stupidity\u201d\u2014 and traced the consequences of the Russian wildfires in 2010, illustrating how agroecological science, indigenous communities, and social movements advancing food sovereignty are building powerful responses. Emily Schwing (Veggielution), Fernando Fernandez Leiva (La Mesa Verde), Paola Felix (Environmental Studies \u201822), and moderator Chris Bacon offered examples of community-based food justice responses to COVID and other challenges and responses from their perspectives as activists and researchers for local food justice. This event online and in-person drew over 110 participants, interested in taking the next steps in developing food justice. The Initiative co-sponsored this event with SCU\u2019s Center for Arts and Humanities, and the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education\u2019s Bannan Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read more about this event on the Center for Arts and Humanities website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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