Sustainable Agriculture: Putting Thought into Our Food

Hanna Garth, Angela Lee, Zoe Todd and Haroon Akram-Lodhi

Sustainable Agriculture: Putting Thought into Our Food

Hanna Garth, Angela Lee, Zoe Todd and Haroon Akram-Lodhi

7:30pm

Monday, October 25, 2021

Authors and experts in candid, live conversation reflect on the topics that matter most during this unprecedented time. Methods of achieving a more sustainable, equitable future in agriculture, farming and food consumption are top of mind as activists and communities around the world work to address the climate crisis. This conversation between panelists Hanna Garth, Angela Lee, Zoe Todd and moderator Haroon Akram-Lodhi, will examine the overlap between food, the economy and the environment, and traverse key topics such as the globalization of food, fishing sustainably and finding a path to equitable food security on a global scale.

Tune in each day of the Festival to hear new speakers in critical conversation about the topics shaping today’s world.

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Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett
Andrew and Valerie Pringle

Panel Discussion

Authors and experts in candid, live conversation reflect on the topics that matter most during this unprecedented time. Methods of achieving a more sustainable, equitable future in agriculture, farming and food consumption are top of mind as activists and communities around the world work to address the climate crisis. This conversation between panelists Hanna Garth, Angela Lee, Zoe Todd and moderator Haroon Akram-Lodhi, will examine the overlap between food, the economy and the environment, and traverse key topics such as the globalization of food, fishing sustainably and finding a path to equitable food security on a global scale.

Tune in each day of the Festival to hear new speakers in critical conversation about the topics shaping today’s world.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

Proudly supported by
Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett
Andrew and Valerie Pringle

Panel Discussion

Featured Authors

Dr. Hanna Garth is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. She has published articles in several academic journals, including American Anthropologist; Food, Culture and Society, Social Science and Medicine; and Anthropological Quarterly. Her first book, Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal, is based on ethnographic research in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest city. In 2020, she also published Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice, a volume co-edited with Ashante M. Reese.

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Dr. Angela Lee is an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at X University. She received her JD from the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC and her PhD from the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law. She researches and writes on a range of topics relating to law, technology, food, the environment, and various forms of justice. She is a co-editor of Food Law and Policy in Canada (Toronto: Carswell, 2019).

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Zoe Todd (Métis) is an expert in Indigenous perspectives on freshwater fish conservation in western Canada (specifically, Alberta). Their fish philosophy work brings together Indigenous science, art, social studies, stories and legal thinking about fish as more-than-human kin. Their current projects examine how Indigenous governance shapes and refracts western fish conservation paradigms. They are the co-founder of the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures, which is an international collective of scientists, artists, writers, landscape architects, architects, environmentalists, journalists and community leaders dedicated to honouring reciprocal responsibilities to freshwater fish in watersheds locally and globally.

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Haroon Akram-Lodhi is Professor of Economics and International Development Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada.

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7:30pm

Monday, October 25

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Food Law and Policy in Canada by , Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal by ,
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