A Short History of Feeding the World: American Universities and the Changing Discourses of Food. This roundtable discussion investigates how universities have come to be invested in feeding the world. That includes talking about the origins of agricultural schools, the creation of the land grant university, more recent investments in the green r...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Adamek, Margaret; Hinrichs, Clare; Waltner, Ann; Wilk, Richard
Created:
2011-03-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Short History of Feeding the World: American Universities and the Changing Discourses of Food. This roundtable discussion investigates how universities have come to be invested in feeding the world. That includes talking about the origins of agricultural schools, the creation of the land grant university, more recent investments in the green r...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Adamek, Margaret; Hinrichs, Clare; Waltner, Ann; Wilk, Richard
Created:
2011-03-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Making Food: The Work of Turning Commodities into Meals. This panel looks at issues of production, cuisine, and gendered labor within the household, as well as the industrialization of the food industry. Facilitator: Tracey Deutsch (History, University of Minnesota). Panelists: Psyche Williams-Forson (University of Maryland), Kim Robien (Epidemi...
Making Food: The Work of Turning Commodities into Meals. This panel looks at issues of production, cuisine, and gendered labor within the household, as well as the industrialization of the food industry. Facilitator: Tracey Deutsch (History, University of Minnesota). Panelists: Psyche Williams-Forson (University of Maryland), Kim Robien (Epidemi...
Agriculture, Forest Management, and the Demise of the Classic Maya City of Tikal Agricultural systems, forestry, and the management of other natural resources are the underpinnings of any complex society. Paleoecologist and ethnobotanist David Lentz studies how Indigenous peoples, both past and present, have used plants, in order to develop a gr...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Lentz, David
Created:
2014-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Agriculture, Forest Management, and the Demise of the Classic Maya City of Tikal Agricultural systems, forestry, and the management of other natural resources are the underpinnings of any complex society. Paleoecologist and ethnobotanist David Lentz studies how Indigenous peoples, both past and present, have used plants, in order to develop a gr...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Lentz, David
Created:
2014-04-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Neoliberal Ebola: The agroeconomics of a deadly spillover The first human outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa, and by far the largest and most extensive recorded to date anywhere, began in forest villages across four districts in southeastern Guinea as early as December 2013. Understandably much attention has been placed upon the lethargy of ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wallace, Robert G.
Created:
2014-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Neoliberal Ebola: The agroeconomics of a deadly spillover The first human outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa, and by far the largest and most extensive recorded to date anywhere, began in forest villages across four districts in southeastern Guinea as early as December 2013. Understandably much attention has been placed upon the lethargy of ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wallace, Robert G.
Created:
2014-10-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Valentine Cadieux, Tracey Deutsch, and Ann Waltner introduce the Minnesota Futures Symposium How We Talk about Feeding the World. The goal of this symposium is to build on frameworks for discussing the complex and often contentious issues that challenge interdisciplinary attempts to talk about food politics. In five panels and a series of discus...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cadieux, Valentine; Deutsch, Tracey; Waltner, Ann
Created:
2011-03-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
World Food Prices Aren't Too High, They're Too Low: How Cheap Food is Destabilizing the Global Economy. The revolution in Tunis during January of 2011 began as a food riot. In recent weeks, markets in Algiers and Cairo have erupted, and malnutrition has reached 17 percent in Agadez, the largest city in the Sahel. Reports from the UN and the Worl...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cullather, Nick
Created:
2011-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
World Food Prices Aren't Too High, They're Too Low: How Cheap Food is Destabilizing the Global Economy. The revolution in Tunis during January of 2011 began as a food riot. In recent weeks, markets in Algiers and Cairo have erupted, and malnutrition has reached 17 percent in Agadez, the largest city in the Sahel. Reports from the UN and the Worl...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Cullather, Nick
Created:
2011-02-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
How Might We Talk with Each Other about Food Abundance and Scarcity in New and Powerful Ways?. What are productive ways to understand disciplinary and political differences in how we talk about, and do research on, food? How can the necessity of disciplinary protocols be balanced with a desire to disrupt those prescriptions by bringing in work f...
How Might We Talk with Each Other about Food Abundance and Scarcity in New and Powerful Ways?. What are productive ways to understand disciplinary and political differences in how we talk about, and do research on, food? How can the necessity of disciplinary protocols be balanced with a desire to disrupt those prescriptions by bringing in work f...
What Do People in other Disciplines Seem to Know When They Talk about Food (That You Wish You Knew More About)?. Using food studies, social sciences, applied economics, and policy studies to navigate the conceptual 'map' of how food is understood, this panel puts central issues of food availability into context from different disciplinary points...
What Do People in other Disciplines Seem to Know When They Talk about Food (That You Wish You Knew More About)?. Using food studies, social sciences, applied economics, and policy studies to navigate the conceptual 'map' of how food is understood, this panel puts central issues of food availability into context from different disciplinary points...
Designing Foodsheds: Ways of Thinking and Talking About Producing Food. This panel builds conversations among people who are involved in food improvement movements. Facilitator: Maggi Adamek (Terra Soma Consulting Services). Panelists: Don Wyse (Agronomy and Plant Genetics, U of M), Erin Meier (SE Regional Sustainable Development Partnership, U ...
Designing Foodsheds: Ways of Thinking and Talking About Producing Food. This panel builds conversations among people who are involved in food improvement movements. Facilitator: Maggi Adamek (Terra Soma Consulting Services). Panelists: Don Wyse (Agronomy and Plant Genetics, U of M), Erin Meier (SE Regional Sustainable Development Partnership, U ...
Anatomy of a Collaboration The AgriFood Collaborative is a group of faculty, students, and others interested in food and agriculture — we began as a reading group across departments of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, and grew to include a number of members from across the university and many neighbors. We meet regul...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Deutsch, Tracey; Cadieux, Valentine; Muller, Ark
Created:
2014-05-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.