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Many of the world’s current food and agricultural systems are in need of transformation – for people, for the environment and climate, and for our shared future. COVID-19 exposed, even more, that the distribution and commercialization of food is highly concentrated and inequitable. A conversational online event, with a long plenary Q&A that brings together social movements and civil society organizations, and authors of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung publication “Crash Barriers for post-COVID-19 food and agricultural systems”, representing perspectives from Asia (India and Philippines) and the Americas (Argentina, Brazil, and the US).

Speakers:

·       P S Vijayshankar (Samaj Pragati Sahayog, India)

·       Matheus Gringo de Assunção (MST and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Brazil) 

·       Qiana Mickie (QJM Multiprise, USA)

·       Ang Cheatlom (Associate lawyer and ecological farming advocate, Cambodia)

Moderation: Patricia Lizarraga (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) and Refiloe Joala (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung)

Registration required: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CAD83rHGQFK4kuY6lTgO3g

Languages: English, Spanish, and Portuguese (with simultaneous interpretation)

Organized by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.