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Dec. 9: MMC Features Fred Magdoff in Discussion on Capitalism and the Global Food Crisis
December 9, 2009
Date: Wednesday, December 9
Time: 1:00-2:20 p.m.
Location: Regina Peruggi Room
Contact: Michael Backus at mbackus@mmm.edu
The international studies department, the Student Political Association and Academic Affairs are sponsoring a lecture on capitalism and the global food crisis. Almost every country in the world has the soil, water and climate resources to grow enough food so that all of their people can eat a healthy diet. So, why do more people continue to starve throughout the world? Please join in a discussion with international expert Fred Magdoff about the links between capitalism and food security, how the changing concentration of corporate farming and BIG-Agro dominates food production and distribution systems globally, and how global resistance efforts can help to reshape global food production toward more equitable and humane ends.
Fred Magdoff is emeritus professor of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont and an adjunct professor at Cornell University. His area of specialty is soil fertility and management. His book, Building Soils for Better Crops (Harold van Es, co-author), is an ecologically-based approach that explains how to work with and enhance the inherent built-in strengths of plant/soil systems. Magdoff is also interested in political and economic issues surrounding agriculture and was senior editor of “Hungry for Profit: the Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment,” and the July/August 2009 issue “Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal,” and the author and co-author of a number of articles in Monthly Review on the U.S. economy as well as on issues of agriculture and food in the Third World. He is most recently the co-author of The Great Financial Crisis and The ABCs of the Economic Crisis.
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