FOOD FOR TALK presents its second seminar of the fall semester:

"Seeking justice in the American Agrifood System: power, perspective, and
Practice"
Patricia Allen, Associate Director, Center for Agroecology and
Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California-Santa Cruz
Friday, October 20th, 2006
2:00 - 4:00 pm
University of Toronto, University College, UC144

Patricia Allen is Associate Director of the Center for Agroecology and
Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California-Santa Cruz where
she directs the Center's social- issues research and education program. Her
work focuses on the political economic structures that can constrain or
enable social equity in sustainable food systems. She has focused on social
issues in sustainable food systems for more than 20 years, publishing "Food
for the Future: Conditions and Contradictions of Sustainability" in 1993.
Her recent work focuses on food-system localization, gender, and alternative
agrifood institutions such as community supported agriculture and
farm-to-school programs. Her 2004 book, "Together at the Table:
Sustainability and Sustenance in the American Agrifood System", is about
social movements and alternative agrifood institutions in the United States.

"Seeking justice in the American agrifood system: power, perspective, and
practice"

Throughout the world numerous vibrant social movements are working to
improve the sustainability of the agrifood system. In the U.S.,
historically, environment and economics have been prioritized, with social
justice subordinated. This is beginning to change as social movements,
notably the sustainable agriculture and community food security movements,
have made discursive and practical efforts to integrate social justice
issues into their projects and programs. The ways in which this is done-and
at other times not done-is shaped internally to a degree by individual
perceptions of justice. It is also determined by the structural,
epistemological, and ideological challenges social movements face in
pursuing a social justice agenda in the American agrifood system. Despite
these challenges, the alternative agrifood movement has the potential to
unite very diverse groups into a movement that has food justice at its
center of gravity. This will involve embracing the discourse of justice and
making strategic choices about alternative and oppositional positions and
projects.



FOOD FOR TALK's third seminar of the fall semester in November will be:
"Slow Food: Local Ingredients, Global Flavour." The panel will be a
report-back from the Terra Madre event in Turin and will be about the Slow
Food movement.

Confirmed speakers include: Harriet Friedmann, Debbie Field, Ruth Klahsen,
Colette Murphy, and Jamie Kennedy

The event will be held on November 17, from 2-4 pm at York University, in
the Health, Nursing and Environmental Studies building (HNES) room
140.
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'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. This series is jointly
sponsored by the Centre for Urban Health Initiatives at the University of
Toronto, York University Faculty of Environmental Studies, the Ryerson
Centre for Studies in Food Security, and the Toronto Food Policy Council.

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

Previous Food For Talk seminars are presently available in digital audio
format at the website of the Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food Security,
http://www.ryerson.ca/~foodsec

Alexis Kane Speer
Centre Coordinator
Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI)
University College, Room 259
University of Toronto
15 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7
416-978-7223
FAX: 416-946-0669


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