[PeDAGoG] Fwd: FW: The Earth Day Roundtable on “Food Security and Food Sovereignty"

[Prakash Kashwan]

Dear GTA Friends:
This round table should be of interest to you, your colleagues, and the
students. One special feature here is an active dialogue between the
U.S.-centered food justice movement and the international discussions
focused on food sovereignty etc. We promise a thought provoking panel
discussion here.

Best wishes,

Prakash



**Registration Link at the bottom**

*April 22, 2021--- 2PM EST *
*The Earth Day Roundtable on “Food Security and Food Sovereignty" *
* Roundtable co-sponsored by the Research Program on Economic & Social
Rights and the Human Rights Institute. This is a UConn Reads Event.*

*Panelists*
Annette Desmarais
<https://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/sociology/facstaff/3497.html>,
Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty
at University of Manitoba
Michael Fakhri <https://law.uoregon.edu/people/directory/mfakhri>, UN
Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Maywa Montenegro <https://envs.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php?uid=mamonten>,
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Department, University of
California, Santa Cruz.

*Moderator*
Prakash Kashwan <https://humanrights.uconn.edu/person/prakash-kashwan/>,
Associate Professor, Political Science & Co-Director, Research Program on
Economic & Social Rights at the University of Connecticut

Transformative changes in the global and national food systems are central
to the pursuits of social justice for racial minorities and Indigenous
peoples, the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs,
specifically Goal 2 of Zero Hunger), and meaningful climate action. Despite
broad-based consensus on each of these goals, significant debates continue
about the specific pathways to ensure rapid progress on these goals. While
the United Nations and other international agencies continue to emphasize
the goals of food security, food justice advocates insist on making food
sovereignty the central plank for global and national policies and
programs. Furthermore, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and
Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), adopted in December 2018,
constitutes an important intervention for ensuring the accountability of
states and agribusiness actors. This roundtable brings together noted food
activists and academics to brainstorm the future of the right to food and a
hunger free world within the context of the ongoing environmental and
climate crisis. The panelists will explore the role that grassroots
agroecology movements could play in influencing the nature and the outcomes
of anticipated changes in the existing food systems.

Registration Link:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpdu-rqDsvH9EGLUbnuLI6ExYKt2mT6ivS
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