University of Manitoba - Faculty of Arts - Global Political Economy - World Food Crisis & Food Security Conference, Oct. 8-10, 2008

World Food Crisis & Food Security Conference, Oct. 8-10, 2008

A Conference organized by the Global Political Economy Program

University of Manitoba
October 8 - 10, 2008

Wed, Oct 8, 1:30 pm SEMINAR Institute for the Humanities 409 Tier Building	Abetment to Suicide: The Agrarian Depression in India in the Era of Economic Reforms, 1991 to The Present Utsa Patnaik Professor of Economics Centre for Economic Studies and Planning Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Thurs, Oct 9, 7:30 pm PUBLIC LECTURE Room 270, Engineering and Information Technology Complex 3	Intensifying Hunger in the Global South: What Lies Behind the Current Food Crisis? Utsa Patnaik Professor of Economics Centre for Economic Studies and Planning Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Fri, Oct 10, 9:30 - 11:30am PUBLIC LECTURE Marshall McLuhan Room, Room 204 University Centre	Food, Globalization, and the Agrarian Question A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi Department of International Development Studies Trent University
	The Myth of Corporate Efficiency and Competition and Their Real Effects on the Food Crisis Fred Tate, National Farmers Union Farms south of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba

Fri, Oct 10, 1:30 - 3:30 pm PUBLIC LECTURE Marshall McLuhan Room Room 204 University Centre	Feeding a Hungry Planet Martin Entz Professor of Agronomy and Cropping Systems Department of Plant Science University of Manitoba James Frey Research Assistant, Department of Plant Science University of Manitoba
	Having our cake and eating it too: a bio-social-economic model for a new agricultural era Rene Van Acker, Professor and Chair Dept. of Plant Agriculture University of Guelph

Free Admission to All Events
Everyone is Welcome

Sponsors:

The Distinguished Visiting Lectureship Committee
The Faculty of Arts
The Faculty of Agriculture
Global Political Economy Program
Global Political Economy Research Group
Departments of Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Studies, and Sociology,
Labour Studies Program