Importing the Right to Food

Speaker Series

Importing the Right to Food

Part 1 of Rural Transformations in the United States

May 31, 2024

Co-sponsored by the Duke Center for International Development and the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Speakers

Smita Narula

Pace Law School

Smita Narula is Haub Distinguished Professor of International Law at Pace Law School and former legal advisor to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2008–2014).

Joshua Lohnes

West Virginia University

Joshua Lohnes is a Research Assistant Professor of Geography and Director of the Food Justice Lab at the Center for Resilient Communities at West Virginia University.

Moderators

Kerilyn Schewel

Senior Fellow, COMIT

Kerilyn Schewel is a Senior Fellow at COMIT. She is co-director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration and Lecturing Fellow in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Her research examines the relationship between migration and development, with a current focus on immobility, rural livelihoods, and climate change. Her book, Moved by Modernity: How Development Shapes Migration in Rural Ethiopia, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Lee Miller

Senior Fellow, COMIT

Lee Miller is a Senior Fellow at COMIT. He is a Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law School, where he teaches on agricultural and environmental law. Miller also has amassed expertise in environmental advocacy, policy innovation, and coalition-building in U.S. food and farm movements. At the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, Miller coordinated a multi-law school farm bill research project promoting agricultural sustainability and justice.