Conference Papers

1

Food Sovereignty: A skeptical view

Henry Bernstein

Emeritus Professor of Development Studies in the University of London at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Bernstein was editor, with Terence J Byres, of the Journal of Peasant Studies, for fifteen years (1985�2000), and founding editor, again with Terence J Byres, of the Journal of Agrarian Change (2001), of which he became Emeritus Editor in 2008. His book, Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change (2010), has been translated to various languages. He is Adjunct Professor at COHD, China Agricultural University, Beijing.

2

What Place for International Trade in Food Sovereignty?

Kim Burnett

SSHRC-funded doctoral student with the University of Waterloo�s Global Governance program.
Her research focuses on the governance of agricultural production and trade, examining how Fair Trade and Food Sovereignty challenge neoliberal structures of agricultural production and trade, and with what efficacy. She has authored a forthcoming publication with Geopolitics on Fair Trade and Food Sovereignty responses to governance opportunities after the global food crisis.

Sophia Murphy

A widely published policy analyst and 2013 Trudeau Foundation Scholar who will begin her PhD at the University of British Columbia in September.
Her policy analysis is on food, agriculture, and international development. Recent work includes analysis of food price volatility in international markets, the effects of trade rules, and corporate concentration on food systems. She is a senior advisor to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Sophia has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and an MSc from the London School of Economics in Social Policy and Planning in Developing Countries

3

Farmers, Foodies & First Nations: Getting to Food Sovereignty in Canada

Annette Aur�lie Desmarais

Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba.
She is the author of La V�a Campesina: Globalization and the Power of Peasants (Fernwood Publishing and Pluto Press, 2007) which has been published in various languages. Annette co-edited Food sovereignty: Reconnecting food, nature, and community and Food Sovereignty in Canada.

Hannah Wittman

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
She conducts collaborative research on food sovereignty, local food systems, and agrarian citizenship in Brazil and Canada and is co-editor of Environment and Citizenship in Latin America: Natures, Subjects, and Struggles; Food sovereignty: Reconnecting food, nature, and community; and Food Sovereignty in Canada.

4

Rural Social Movements and Di�logo de Saberes: Peasant Territories, Food Sovereignty, and Agroecology

Peter Rosset

Researcher and professor at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECO-SUR) in Chiapas, Mexico.
He is also a researcher at the Center for the Study of Rural Change in Mexico (CECCAM) and is co-coordinator of the Land Research Action Network (www.landaction.org).

Maria Elena Martinez-Torres

A faculty member in the Environment and Society Program of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology-Southeast Campus (CIESAS-Sureste) in Chiapas, Mexico
She is also a research associate at the Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA) in Berkeley, California.

5

Financialization, Distance and Global Food Politics

Jennifer Clapp

Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability and Professor, Environment and Resource Studies Department, University of Waterloo, Canada.
She has published widely on the global governance of problems that arise at the intersection of the global economy, the environment, and food security. Her most recent books include Hunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid (Cornell University Press, 2012), Food (Polity, 2012) and Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance (co-edited with Doris Fuchs, MIT Press, 2009).

6

�Like gold with yield�: Evolving intersections between farmland and finance

Madeleine Fairbairn

PhD candidate in the joint Sociology/Community and Environmental Sociology graduate program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Her previous research examined food sovereignty as a social movement frame. She has also studied land grabbing in Mozambique. Her current work explores growing interest in farmland on the part of the financial sector, as well as the policy debate that surrounds foreign farmland investment in the case of Brazil.

7

Risk and Blame in the Anthropocene: Multi-scale Climate Change Analysis

Jesse Ribot

Professor of Geography, Women and Gender in Global Perspective, Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, and faculty of Beckman Institute, University of Illinois.
Before 2008 he worked at World Resources Institute, taught at MIT, and was a fellow at The New School, Yale, Rutgers, Max Planck Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Harvard. He is an Africanist studying local democracy, resource access, and social vulnerability.