Wednesday\, March 7th
12:30 pm –
1:30 pm
Multipurpose room\, Liu Institute for Globa
l Issues\, UBC
Light refreshments provided. No RSVP required.
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About Dr. Annette Desmarais:
Annette Aurélie Desmarais is Canada Research Chair in Human Rights\, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty. She is the author of La Vía C ampesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants (2007) that has been publ ished in French\, Spanish\, Korean\, Italian and Portuguese. She also co-ed ited Food Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food\, Nature and Community (2010) and Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems (201 1). Prior to obtaining her doctorate in geography\, Annette was a small-sca le cattle and grain farmer in Canada for fourteen years. She also worked as technical support to La Via Campesina for a decade and continues to conduc t participatory research with member organizations of this transnational ag rarian movement.
This event is part of the UBC Future of Food Global Dialogue Serie s\, a campus-wide initiative bringing together food security a nd sustainability experts from across the university and North America to r egularly engage the UBC community and the public around the Global Food Sys tem\, including topics such as climate change\, food security\, biodiversit y\, social justice\, culture\, and policy. The series uses various formats to foster discussion\, such as dialogue circles\, seminars\, panel discussi ons\, performances\, photo exhibitions\, and film screenings.
The ser ies is jointly convened by the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm \, the Liu Institute for Global Issue s\, and UBC Reads Sustainability\ , an initiative of UBC Sustainability.
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