Episode 19 of the Saving the World webinar series features Professor Jennifer Clapp.
In Episode 19 of the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse’s Saving the World webinar series, Jennifer Clapp discusses her new book, Titans of Industrial Agriculture: How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why it Matters.
She will examine the rise to dominance of the top global firms in the farm machinery, fertiliser, seed, and pesticide industries, and discuss how those firms in turn have been able to exert different forms of power to stay in a position of dominance. The talk will also examine the consequences of corporate power in the sector, including its social and ecological costs.
The ‘Saving the World’ webinar series, presented by the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, releases a new episode each month, discussing the intersections between climate change, inequity and human health. The webinars focus on actions that enable transformative change away from the harmful consumptogenic system to systems that promote good health, social equity and environmental wellbeing.
Event Speakers
Professor Jennifer Clapp
Professor Jennifer Clapp is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability and Professor in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food).
Professor Sharon Friel
Prof Sharon Friel is an ARC Laureate Fellow, Prof of Health Equity and Director of the Australian Research Centre for Health Equity, the School of Regulation & Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia and co-Director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity.