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by Magnificent Mndebele
New Frame
June 4, 2022
Hunger and obesity are symptoms of the same problem. Activist Raj Patel’s latest film follows a Malawian farmer as she cares for the Earth while growing crops.
“If you are not anxious at the moment, there must be something wrong with you. How can you not be? All the data suggests that we are fucked,” says filmmaker and food activist Raj Patel.
by David Bollier
www.bollier.org
July 13, 2012
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Raj Patel has been tracking the pathologies of the global food system for many years. An activist and academic who teaches at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies, Patel has just published a second, updated edition of his 2008 book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.
The problem with the food system is not that we don’t produce enough calories to eradicate hunger, Patel notes. It’s that the food system has its own priorities of institutional consolidation and profit, which means that more than 1 billion people in the world are malnourished and 2 billion are overweight – which is worse than when the first edition of Patel’s book came out.
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Jul 15, 2012 by upheavalproductions
Raj Patel is a writer, activist, and academic, focusing on the global food system and food justice. He is currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for African Studies, a fellow at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and a fellow with organization Food First.
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AlJazeeraEnglish | November 25, 2010
With more than one billion people around the world considered overweight, why are so many others still starving and struggling to fill their plates?
Nicole Colson explains how food–something that should be a basic human right–is instead used as a tool for profit, as laid out in the new book Stuffed and Starved.
SocialistWorker.org
December 18, 2008
IN THE midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, some companies are finding that business is booming.
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By Raj Patel
ICH
04/16/08 “The Guardian”
There are many causes behind the world food crisis, but one chief villain: World Bank head, Robert Zoellick
For anyone who understands the current food crisis, it is hard to listen to the head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, without gagging.
Earlier this week, Zoellick waxed apocalyptic about the consequences of the global surge in prices, arguing that free trade had become a humanitarian necessity, to ensure that poor people had enough to eat. The current wave of food riots has already claimed the prime minister of Haiti, and there have been protests around the world, from Mexico, to Egypt, to India.
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