A Recipe for Disaster - Webinar Recording

Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 7:00pm
Rob Wallace with Moayyad Bsharat, Arie Kurniawaty, Sai Sam Kham & Paula Gioia

This webinar organized by the Transnational Institute presents a dialogue between Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and agrarian justice activists from Myanmar, Palestine, Indonesia and Europe.

The webinar explored how globalised industrial food systems set the scene for the emergence of COVID-19, the structural connections between the capitalist industrial agriculture, pathogens and the precarious conditions of workers in food systems and society at large. It also touched on the kind of just and resilient food systems we need to transform food and agriculture today?

Panellists: -

Rob Wallace author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and co-author of Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm.

Moayyad Bsharat of Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), member organization of La Via Campesina in Palestine.

Arie Kurniawaty of Indonesian feminist organization Solidaritas Perempuan (SP) which works with women in grassroots communities across the urban-rural spectrum.

Sai Sam Kham of Metta Foundation in Myanmar.

Paula Gioia peasant farmer in Germany and member of the Coordination Committee of the European Coordination Via Campesina.

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