GLOBL 137: FOOD AND JUSTICE

University of California, Santa Barbara

Our food system is global. For some, this arrangement ensures access to hea lthy food from nearly every part of the planet. But many others inhabit a w orld of violent displacement, brutal working conditions, and starvation, on e in which the very people who grow the world’s food cannot feed their fami lies. What would it take to build a just food system? To answer this questi on, we will study the many efforts—from organic certification and cooperati ves to land occupations and food sovereignty movements—to transform the pro duction, circulation, and consumption of food. We will explore how these st ruggles illuminate the social and ecological problems created by our curren t food system, and how we might create something better.