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The way we eat impacts both people and the planet. ‘good’ food serves up climate justice, social justice, gender equity, healthy biodiversity, community, health, and enjoyment. Our modern food system sings a much different tune, one of disease, destruction and ecological degradation..
We will explore why, and what we can do about it. What choices can we make to shift the needle towards sustainability? What would your next meal look like with those choices? In this panel, we’ve brought together leading thinkers, do-ers and farmers working to make our food systems better, both for people, and the planet. To bring this conversation home, Laura Christie Khanna will guide everyone to grow food themselves by making a DIY self-watering garden, using upcycled plastic bottles.
Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor at the School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin. He has degrees from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cornell University, has worked for & protested against the World Bank and WTO. Raj co-taught the 2014 Edible Education class at UC Berkeley with Michael Pollan. In 2016, he was recognized with a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award and is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. In addition to scholarly publications he regularly writes for The Guardian, and has contributed to the Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Times of India, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Mail on Sunday, and The Observer.
Dr. Zareen Bharucha is an environmental social scientist and senior research fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK. Her research focuses on environmental change and how communities respond to it. She is also interested in how people envision sustainable futures and models of the ‘good life’. She is now bringing her research insights into these workshops to engage with the everyday lived experience of environmental issues amongst urban Indians.
Satyajit Hange is one of the Co-founders of Two Brothers Organic Farms (TBOF), a 21 acre certified organic farm in Bhodani (a small village in Maharashtra). After completing his education in economics, Satyajit climbed the corporate ladder for nearly a decade. In 2011, he co-founded TBOF and returned home to Bhodani. Today, he practices all natural, regenerative farming full-time. TBOF ships natural products to over 40 countries and is recognised as India’s no. 1 organic farming brand.
Laura Christie Khanna is owner of The Odd Gumnut Permaculture Farm and Rise Up Kombucha, India’s only zero-waste kombucha brand. With an academic background in food politics and field experience farming around the world, her work bridges the gap between food systems thinking and community action. She’s a food sovereignty advocate, permaculture teacher and thought-leader in regenerative lifestyle, teaching workshops on chemical free living, natural farming and fermentation to thousands of folks in-person and online.
The way we eat impacts both people and the planet. ‘good’ food serves up climate justice, social justice, gender equity, healthy biodiversity, community, health, and enjoyment. Our modern food system sings a much different tune, one of disease, destruction and ecological degradation..
We will explore why, and what we can do about it. What choices can we make to shift the needle towards sustainability? What would your next meal look like with those choices? In this panel, we’ve brought together leading thinkers, do-ers and farmers working to make our food systems better, both for people, and the planet. To bring this conversation home, Laura Christie Khanna will guide everyone to grow food themselves by making a DIY self-watering garden, using upcycled plastic bottles.
Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor at the School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin. He has degrees from the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cornell University, has worked for & protested against the World Bank and WTO. Raj co-taught the 2014 Edible Education class at UC Berkeley with Michael Pollan. In 2016, he was recognized with a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award and is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. In addition to scholarly publications he regularly writes for The Guardian, and has contributed to the Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Times of India, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Mail on Sunday, and The Observer.
Dr. Zareen Bharucha is an environmental social scientist and senior research fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK. Her research focuses on environmental change and how communities respond to it. She is also interested in how people envision sustainable futures and models of the ‘good life’. She is now bringing her research insights into these workshops to engage with the everyday lived experience of environmental issues amongst urban Indians.
Satyajit Hange is one of the Co-founders of Two Brothers Organic Farms (TBOF), a 21 acre certified organic farm in Bhodani (a small village in Maharashtra). After completing his education in economics, Satyajit climbed the corporate ladder for nearly a decade. In 2011, he co-founded TBOF and returned home to Bhodani. Today, he practices all natural, regenerative farming full-time. TBOF ships natural products to over 40 countries and is recognised as India’s no. 1 organic farming brand.
Laura Christie Khanna is owner of The Odd Gumnut Permaculture Farm and Rise Up Kombucha, India’s only zero-waste kombucha brand. With an academic background in food politics and field experience farming around the world, her work bridges the gap between food systems thinking and community action. She’s a food sovereignty advocate, permaculture teacher and thought-leader in regenerative lifestyle, teaching workshops on chemical free living, natural farming and fermentation to thousands of folks in-person and online.
