Menno Simons College Esau Lecture Series

How  we Grow, Share and Eat

Moving Toward Just and Sustainable Food and Farming Systems

Menno Simons College Esau Lecture Series

 

Fall Public Lectures

 

ALL Public Lectures 7:00 to 9:00 pm, Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, The University of Winnipeg

 

September 26, 2013

Changing Agriculture to Sustain the World: A Sequel
Dr. Martin Entz, University of Manitoba 

Professor Entz is the co-chair of the first Canadian Organic Science Conference, held in Winnipeg in February 2012. He completed his PhD at the University of Winnipeg in drought physiology, and maintains an interest in international development. Entz has done international development work in North Korea and has traveled all of the world’s continents to observe how sustainable agriculture is performed. His research interests include organic cropping systems, long term organic vs. conventional crop production systems, farmer participatory organic crop breeding, crop-livestock integration, and tropical agriculture.

October 24, 2013

Harvest of hope and food sovereignty in northern Manitoba

 Dr. Shirley Thompson, University of Manitoba 

Dr. Shirley Thompson is an associate professor at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba. Dr. Thompson has a PhD in Adult Education and Community Development and for the last four years and is a board member of Food Secure Canada and the Association of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research. In the past ten years Dr. Thompson has published 18 papers in refereed journals in press or published and one co-edited book as well as a number of videos. Dr. Thompson is working with 4 Island Lake Communities as Principal investigator for traditional land use planning and occupancy studies for sustainable community development. 

November 21, 2013

Feeding the world: is hunger inevitable?
Dr. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Chair & Professor of International Development Studies, Trent University; and author of: Hungry for Change: Farmers, Food Justice and the Agrarian Question

Trained as an economist, the focus of Dr. Akram-Lodhi's research interest is in the political economy of agrarian change in developing capitalist countries, on the economic dimensions of gender relations, and on the political ecology of sustainable rural livelihoods and communities in contemporary poor countries. Haroon Akram-Lodhi's most recent book is Hungry for Change: Farmers, Food Justice and the Agrarian Question.

- submitted by Ruth