Association for India's Development- Bay Area Chapter presents
The Future of Food: Science and Politics of Corporate Farming
A talk by leading food policy analyst Devinder Sharma
When: October 4th, Sunday, at 4 p.m.
Where: San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48, S. 7th st. San Jose
The Event is free and open to public
Recent
years have seen an alarming deterioration in the world’s food security
situation. Internationally, a neo-colonial trend of grabbing farmland
in other countries for producing food for domestic consumption is
sweeping the world. What is at stake here is the very existence of the
food production system that has sustained us for centuries. Against
this backdrop, and in light of the ongoing global debate over climate
change and emerging food crisis, we are witnessing vigorous people’s
resistance movements all over India, indeed all over the world.
About the Speaker:
Devinder
Sharma is an award-winning Indian writer, thinker, and researcher
respected for his views on food and trade policy. Trained as an
agricultural scientist (he holds a Master’s in Plant Breeding &
Genetics), Sharma has been with the Indian Express, amongst the largest
selling English language dailies in India. He quit active journalism to
research policy issues concerning sustainable agriculture, biodiversity
& intellectual property rights, environment & development, food
security & poverty, biotechnology and hunger, and the implications
of the free trade paradigm for developing countries. Devinder Sharma
was recently honored as one of the 25 most valuable Indians by the
magazine "The Week". He blogs at http://devinder-sharma.
For more information:
Karthik 513-884-0002;
email: projects@bayarea.aidindia.org
