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Food for Talk Presents.

Kathleen McAfee, Visiting Scholar in Geography at the University of
California at Berkeley
Presentation Title: Food Sovereignty, Food Trade, and the Socionature of
Maize 
Friday, October 7
12:30-2:30, York University, HNES 140

Kathleen McAfee works on the relationship between ecology and social equity.
She writes and teaches about economic globalization and international
development, food systems, and sustainable resource use. Her research on
Selling Nature to Save It? analyzes the challenges of valuing biodiversity
and distributing environmental benefits and burdens in a world-market
economy.

Dr. McAfee's current projects concern environmental services, resource
rights, rural livelihoods, and the socioeconomic aspects of agriculture and
genetic resources conservation in Mexico and elsewhere in the global South.
Her recent publications address new biotechnologies, intellectual property
rights to genes, living organisms, and knowledge, and related challenges for
food security, trade policy, and governance.

Kathy is currently a Visiting Scholar in Geography at the University of
California at Berkeley. During the Fall 2005 semester, she will at Simon
Fraser University as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Sustainability.

'Food for Talk' provides a place for conversations to take place between
people who work with communities, government and universities to explore the
emerging and challenging issues around food security, agricultural
transformation, and local food alternatives/networks.

For more information about the seminar series, contact Joy Harewood
[log in to unmask] or Lauren Baker [log in to unmask], or telephone the
Centre for Urban Health Initiatives at 416-978-7223.

Save the dates.

Friday, October 21
2:30-5:30, University of Toronto, University College, room 163
Will Allen, Executive Director, Growing Power

Friday, December 2
12:30 - 2:30, York University, HNES 140
Panel: Donald Cole, University of Toronto; Karine Jarouch, FoodShare; Anan
Lololi, Afri-Can FoodBasket; and others!
From the Global South to the Global North: Growing Food in the City

Presented by the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University; Centre
for Urban Health Initiatives, University of Toronto; Centre for Studies in
Food Security, Ryerson University; and the Toronto Food Policy Council.

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Lauren Baker
PhD Candidate
Faculty of Environmental Studies
York University
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