The geopolitics of food security: Shifting to sustainable agriculture through global system change
Global food security is under threat. Global political instability is a key cause, along with increasingly unpredictable catastrophic weather events and the current techno-capitalist system. So how can we avoid or mitigate food crises?
Our upcoming webinar, featuring a range of food security experts, will probe this critical question.
Small-scale farming is the backbone of rural resilience to external shocks in the developing world. It has served as an effective buffer for labour disruptions in many recent crises (including the COVID-19 pandemic), by providing alternative livelihoods. But how long can this last? Small farmers have been increasingly sidelined due to neoliberal policies.
This webinar focuses on sustainable corporate system change strategies and how and why family farms and village communities, which are the traditional productive and social units of rural landscapes, should be at the centre of system change.
Hosts
Hosted by Critical Reorientations of Organisation and Society (CROS), the Monash Business School Green Lab and the University of Melbourne.
Speakers
Associate Professor Jagjit Plahe, Monash Business School
A/Prof Plahe is an Associate Professor of International Political Economy. Her research interests include global governance, trade justice, and the management and organisation of equitable and sustainable food systems in Asia.
Dr Paola Tiné, The University of Adelaide
Dr Tiné is an early career researcher working conjointly at the University of Adelaide and Monash University. Her research interests include local perspectives of health and healthy eating in the Global South and relational wellbeing.
Professor Gavin Jack, Monash Business School
Prof Jack is Head of the Department of Management. His multidisciplinary research interests and expertise include workplace diversity and inclusion, postcolonial organisation studies, sustainable agricultural development, and qualitative and critical management research methods.
Frank Dixon, Global System Change
Mr Dixon is a sustainability and system change pioneer and leader. In 2003, he developed the first models for integrating system change into ESG and corporate sustainability strategies. His Global System Change books use whole system thinking and the laws of nature to show how to evolve human systems and society into sustainable forms.
Dr Dipa Sinha, Dr BR Ambedkar University Delhi
Dr Sinha gained her MA in Economics from JNU, her MSc in Development Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London and her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has worked on issues related to food rights, nutrition and public health. Previously she worked with the Office of Commissioners to the Supreme Court (on the Right to Food), Centre for Equity Studies and Public Health Research Network. She is actively involved with the Right to Food Campaign in India.
Professor Thomas Reuter, The University of Melbourne
Prof Reuter is an anthropologist at the University of Melbourne with a research focus on transformative social change, food systems and sustainability in Asia and beyond. He is on the board of the World Academy (WAAS), past chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations and former executive member of the International Science Council and IUAES. He is a frequent advisor to international organisations and national governments, and has published 15 books plus more than 150 articles.
Dr Graeme Mcrae, Massey University
Dr MacRae is an anthropologist at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. His research has been mostly in Bali, but also in Yogyakarta and India. In recent years he has been about the intersections between "development" and environmental issues especially agri-food in Indonesia
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Event Details
- Date:
- 24 May 2023 at 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
- Venue:
- Online - Zoom
- Categories:
- General; Green Lab; Management
Description
Global food security is under threat. Global political instability is a key cause, along with increasingly unpredictable catastrophic weather events and the current techno-capitalist system. So how can we avoid or mitigate food crises?
Our upcoming webinar, featuring a range of food security experts, will probe this critical question.
Small-scale farming is the backbone of rural resilience to external shocks in the developing world. It has served as an effective buffer for labour disruptions in many recent crises (including the COVID-19 pandemic), by providing alternative livelihoods. But how long can this last? Small farmers have been increasingly sidelined due to neoliberal policies.
This webinar focuses on sustainable corporate system change strategies and how and why family farms and village communities, which are the traditional productive and social units of rural landscapes, should be at the centre of system change.
Hosts
Hosted by Critical Reorientations of Organisation and Society (CROS), the Monash Business School Green Lab and the University of Melbourne.
Speakers
Associate Professor Jagjit Plahe, Monash Business School
A/Prof Plahe is an Associate Professor of International Political Economy. Her research interests include global governance, trade justice, and the management and organisation of equitable and sustainable food systems in Asia.
Dr Paola Tiné, The University of Adelaide
Dr Tiné is an early career researcher working conjointly at the University of Adelaide and Monash University. Her research interests include local perspectives of health and healthy eating in the Global South and relational wellbeing.
Professor Gavin Jack, Monash Business School
Prof Jack is Head of the Department of Management. His multidisciplinary research interests and expertise include workplace diversity and inclusion, postcolonial organisation studies, sustainable agricultural development, and qualitative and critical management research methods.
Frank Dixon, Global System Change
Mr Dixon is a sustainability and system change pioneer and leader. In 2003, he developed the first models for integrating system change into ESG and corporate sustainability strategies. His Global System Change books use whole system thinking and the laws of nature to show how to evolve human systems and society into sustainable forms.
Dr Dipa Sinha, Dr BR Ambedkar University Delhi
Dr Sinha gained her MA in Economics from JNU, her MSc in Development Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London and her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has worked on issues related to food rights, nutrition and public health. Previously she worked with the Office of Commissioners to the Supreme Court (on the Right to Food), Centre for Equity Studies and Public Health Research Network. She is actively involved with the Right to Food Campaign in India.
Professor Thomas Reuter, The University of Melbourne
Prof Reuter is an anthropologist at the University of Melbourne with a research focus on transformative social change, food systems and sustainability in Asia and beyond. He is on the board of the World Academy (WAAS), past chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations and former executive member of the International Science Council and IUAES. He is a frequent advisor to international organisations and national governments, and has published 15 books plus more than 150 articles.
Dr Graeme Mcrae, Massey University
Dr MacRae is an anthropologist at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. His research has been mostly in Bali, but also in Yogyakarta and India. In recent years he has been about the intersections between "development" and environmental issues especially agri-food in Indonesia