Hunger and Inequality in the Global South

A Talk by Kavita Srivastava

Convener, Right to Food Campaign, India

In September 2013 the Parliament of India passed a national Food Security Bill. The national Right to Food Campaign in India has been advocating a universal Food Security legislation and has secured many progressive measures through ‘Interim Orders’ of the Supreme Court of India since 2001. How does the new law fare in dealing with widespread hunger and inequality? What does it promise and who does it leave out?

And A Panel Discussion

 

Nancy Romer Chair, Governance Board Brooklyn Food Coalition

William Camacaro  Co-founder, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York

Maggie Dickinson Anthropologist, Graduate Center

Kavita Srivastava Convener, Right to Food Campaign, India

 

Moderated by Brenda Biddle Anthropologist, Graduate Center

As hunger and inequality grow across the global South, movements and coalitions fighting for food security and sovereignty find many points of convergence. What can we learn from diverse contexts and strategies to tackle hunger and inequality?

Join us for a talk and a panel discussing the rich and varied contexts of struggles against hunger and inequality in the US, Venezuela, India and across Europe.

 

October 28, 2013

6:30 pm

Rooms: 9206/9207 

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

Organized by Preeti Sampat, Anthropologist, Graduate Center

 

Sponsored by Center for Place, Culture and Politics

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology

CUNY Graduate Center

Kavita Srivastava is the convener of the national campaign for the Right to Food in India and national secretary for the People’s Union for Civil Liberties. A prominent feminist and lifelong activist, Srivastava has also organized and fought for women’s rights, against state repression and against the use of anti-terror and sedition laws against human rights activists and others.

 

Nancy Romer, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College and founder of the Brooklyn College Community Partnership.  She is founder and now chair of the Governance Board of the Brooklyn Food Coalition, a food justice organization dedicated to building a multi-racial, activist food movement locally and nationally. A life long activist, her work has focused on labor, class, gender and environmental issues with grassroots participation at its core.

 

William Camacaro, originally from Venezuela, is co-founder of the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York, he has a master in fine art and Latin America literature,  is an artist, radio host, and activist in New York City. He has led more than 15 delegations to Venezuela in Food Sovereignty

 

Maggie Dickinson is a cultural anthropologist who works on food policy in New York City. Her research is concerned with hunger, poverty and inequality in the urban U.S.  She has worked with anti-hunger advocates and activists on campaigns to expand access to food stamps in New York and nationally.   She is a candidate at the Anthropology Program at the CUNY Graduate Center.

 

Brenda Biddle is an engaged anthropologist with a long history of working with food–as a chef, organic gardener, coop-worker and harvester of agricultural crops. She currently teaches the anthropology of food at Hunter College and works in an NYC non-profit. She is writing a dissertation about the emergence of food sovereignty discourses and practices among members of the European Via Campesina. She is also researching food sovereignty in Venezuela.