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Pat Mooney – A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by 2045
August 15 @ 8:00 am – 10:15 am UTC-7
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What will it take to build truly sustainable food systems? We need a #LongFoodMovement to build new connections and collaborate more closely than ever before; to think proactively and plan for the long term. The conversation will begin with a 20-minute presentation from Pat, followed by a rich and interactive World Cafe-style dialogue.
ABOUT PAT MOONEY
Pat Mooney is a Canadian author and agricultural development expert, who has for decades advocated for genetic conservation and biodiversity. He has long worked with international civil society, first addressing aid and development issues and then focusing on food, agriculture, and commodity trade. Mooney’s more recent work has focused on geoengineering, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and the global governance of these technologies, as well as corporate involvement in their development. Pat received the Right Livelihood Award in 1984 “for working to save the world’s genetic plant heritage.”
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF A LONG FOOD MOVEMENT – Website, 2m video, 10pp summary
What do the next 25 years have in store with “agribusiness-as-usual”? The keys of the food system are handed over to data platforms, private equity firms, and e-commerce giants, putting the food security of billions at the mercy of high-risk, AI-controlled farming systems and accelerating environmental breakdown. But what if the initiative is reclaimed by civil society and social movements? From farmers’ and fishers’ groups to cooperatives and unions, we imagine what a “Long Food Movement” could achieve by 2045 if it succeeds in thinking decades ahead, transforming financial flows, governance structures, and food systems from the ground up.
CONTACT
Hosted by the Agroecology Working Group of the Right Livelihood College and organized by working group co-chair Dave Shaw, daveshaw@ucsc.edu.