Poverty With Added Vitamins? Competing Ways to Govern the World Food System’ Raj Patel
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Poverty With Added Vitamins?Competing Ways To Govern
The World Food System
Raj PatelResearch Professor
Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs University of Texas at Austin
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Which is the most important agricultural technology?
1. the plough2. fencing3. the seed drill 4. inorganic fertilizer5. genetically modified crops
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•19th century21st century
TECHNOLOGY OF EXCLUSION
Source: UK Ordnance Survey
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Global Ecological Footprint:Cheap Nature
Davis, Steven J., and Ken Caldeira. 2010. "Consumption-based accounting of CO2 emissions." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (12):5687-92.
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Cheap Workers need Cheap Food needs Cheap Nature
Credit: Mike Mozart (cc v2 license)
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THE FOOD INDUSTRY
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New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
Source: The Guardian
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Business Alliance for Food and Fortification
• ‘Companies already own the right technology to make a difference as well as the distribution channels and communication networks’
Business Alliance for Food and Fortification 2005
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Source: ONE (2013)
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Malawi’s Key Commitments
1. Improved score on Doing Business Index to top 100 countries
2. Increased dollar value of private sector investment in the agriculture sector and value added agro-processing
3. Increased private investment in commercial production, sale of inputs and produce and value addition
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Some specific commitments to the New Alliance
Source: New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
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So Why is it Called the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition?
Source: Kevin Dooley/Flickr, Nishan Bichajian/MIT Libraries
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The Era of Poverty with Added Vitamins
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Malawi’s Problem in 2000
• Life expectancy : 46 years old• HIV/AID Prevalence: 14%• Child malnutrition (stunting): 50%• GDP/Capita: $150
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Soils, Food and Healthy Communities Project, Malawi
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Source: Raj Patel, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Lizzie Shumba, Laifolo Dakishoni. 2015. Cook, Eat, Man, Woman: The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, Nutritionism and its Alternatives from Malawi. Journal of Peasant Studies, 42(1)
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Results
• Sanitation & Healthcare• Grain Storage• Credit facilities• Climate change enterprise• Child Malnutrition Clinic closes• Cost $8/person/year
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Source: Smith, Lisa C., and Lawrence Haddad. 2015. "Reducing Child Undernutrition: Past Drivers and Priorities for the Post-MDG Era." World Development 68 (0):180-204. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.11.014.
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Food Sovereignty &Agroecology
• Everyone is a scientist-entrepreneur-activist-cook
• Contributive justice• Peer-to-peer• Joyful and tough• Internalised social and environmental costs• Re-learning the commons• Challenge power and inequality
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Questions• What’s your theory
of change?• What happens to
corporate power?• What happens to
private property?
Gandhi on Salt March