Events 2013

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78. Feeding a Billion: China's Food System and Emerging Grassroots Food Movements 6/9

WED, June 19th 6:30 - 8:30pm Feeding a Billion: China's Food System and Emerging Grassroots Food Movements

606 Maynard Ave S, rm 105 (Urban Food Link office)

China's population of 1.4 billion is fed by a system of agriculture and food production fairly unique in the world. As the country's young capitalist economy grows by leaps and bounds, that food system is also changing dramatically. In the past few years, after a period of heavily urban-focused policy and in response to rural social crisis, the government has been turning its attention more towards its rural foundations. The combination of a ravenously expanding market and the government's attempts to moderate its effects has brought China's agriculture and food systems to a pivotal moment. Come to hear CAGJ's Jasmine Zhang and others to learn about China's current system of agriculture, the changing conditions of rural life, the role of land access in those changes, and the types of grassroots food movements responding to this crisis of agriculture and the rural. Visit the facebook page for more information.
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