Global food regimes and China

This second Agrarian Conversations webinar will discuss China’s relationship to food regime transitioning.

• What relationship does China have to current food regime transitioning, with the changing geographies of production, circulation and consumption of global food commodities, and the growing significance of agroecological farming? 
• Does China’s deepening international presence portend a new form of food regime hegemony? And what might that look like? 
• If it does, what are the implications of such changing dynamics for local, national, and international political struggles for a fairer and kinder agro-food system? 
   

Speakers and panelists

• Philip McMichaelOpens external, Cornell University, USA
• Yan HairongOpens external, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Paul NicholsonOpens external, La Via Campesina
• Refiloe JoalaOpens external, PLAAS, South Africa
• Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti,Opens external Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina
• Carol HernandezOpens external, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Co-chairs: Ruth HallOpens external, PLAAS and Katie SandwellOpens external, TNI.

Format

The webinar will be in English, Spanish, French and Mandarin. It has a conversational format: initial short inputs from the speakers and panelists, followed by a much longer plenary Q&A.