Centralization of Power in Food Systems

Digesting Food Studies by Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation

Episode notes

There’s a lot of power in food and food systems. This episode explores the centralization of that power, particularly the ways in which corporations and governments operate and control spaces of production and transformation. The issue of Canadian Food Studies in focus is Vol. 2, No. 2 (2015), including its subsection, “Financialization in the Food System,” which our guest, Jennifer Clapp, co–guest edited. Alexia Moyer shares learnings from Brian Brett’s book, Trauma Farm, and PhD student Heidi Janes responds to a selection of CFS articles about corporate power.

Guests:

Alexia Moyer is co-Managing Editor of Canadian Food Studies and a founding member of the  ... 

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Keywords
food studiesacademiafood systemsfood policyagriculturefinancializationland grabbingcapitalismcorporationspower