A Recipe for Disaster

Apr 15th, 2020 9:00 am

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Transnational Institiute

Rob Wallace

The Transnationa Institute's next webinar, A Recipe for Disaster: Globalised food systems, structural inequality and COVID-19 will feature a dialogue between Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and agrarian justice activists from Myanmar, Palestine, Indonesia and Europe.

Join us on Wednesday April 15 at 4pm CET (9 am in Mexico}. Make sure you register to receive an invite and link to the webinar.

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