Food and Agriculture in Africa

Public Symposium:  Exploring African Agricultural Futures • November 9–10, 2017

• Program (with speaker abstracts + bios)
• Blog by Emily Springer (PhD Candidate, Sociology): “Laboring to Maintain Wild Spaces: Farming Practices and Epistemic Diversities for the Future of African Agriculture”
• Blog by Virgil Slade (PhD Candidate, History): “African Agricultural Futures: Food Sovereignty and Social Justice”
• Blog by Jessica Farrell (PhD Candidate, History): “Negotiating the Green and Gene Revolutions: Global Paradigms and Local Strategies”
• View slide decks from:
  • Million Belay
  • Hussein Haji
  • Abbyssinia Mushunje
  • Rebecca Nelson
  • Bronwen Powell
  • Paul Richards

Campus Conversation: African Studies and Agronomy: Points of Intersection

October 28, 2016 | 12:00-2:00 p.m.• Carlson School 1-127

• Njeri Githire, Associate Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, “Food, Politics, and Artistic Expression in the African Cultural Landscape”
• William Moseley, Professor, Department of Geography, Macalester College, “Has Development Agronomy Learned the Wrong Lessons from the First Green Revolution? The Troubling Assumptions of the New Green Revolution for Africa”
• Paul Porter, Professor, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota, “African Studies and Agronomy: Points of Intersection”