Eating Tomorrow: The Battle for the Future of Food

Speaker: 
Timothy A. Wise
 
04 Apr 2022
 
5:30 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Co-sponsors: 
  • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)

The 2022 Shivvers Memorial Lecture

Recording Link: https://iastate.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=05cad950-fd0c-4b42-8722-ae700179e251

Timothy A. Wise is author of the recent book, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food. He is a senior advisor at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, where his work focuses on agribusiness, family farmers and the future of food, and a senior research fellow at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute, where he founded and directed its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. His previous work includes directing the Small Planet Institute’s Land and Food Rights Program and serving as executive director of the U.S.-based aid agency Grassroots International.  He is also author of Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico. Wise lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.