Local Knowledge, Global Change

Speaker Series

Local Knowledge, Global Change

Part 3 of Rural Transformations

June 30, 2023

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

Published in Pivot Press

Agroecology and the Future of Food Sovereignty: a conversation with Miguel Altieri and Richa Kumar

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Speakers

Miguel Altieri

University of California, Berkeley

Miguel Altieri is Professor of Agroecology at the University of California, Berkeley. His numerous books include Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture and Agroecology: Science and Politics.

Richa Kumar

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Richa Kumar is Associate Professor of Sociology and Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She is the author of Rethinking Revolutions: Soyabean, Choupals and the Changing Countryside in Central India.

Moderators

Daniel Duhart

Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano

Daniel Duhart is a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano in Santiago, Chile. His research examines the discourse and practice of civilizational transition in Chile, and their resonances with alternative conceptions of intellectual life and civic society.

Kerilyn Schewel

Senior Fellow, COMIT

Kerilyn Schewel is the Co-Director of the Duke Program on Climate-Related Migration and a Lecturing Fellow at the Duke Center for International Development. Her research examines the root causes of human migration and immobility, with a focus on themes of gender, youth, rural development, and climate change.