1. some food for thought…

2. Race, Class, and Gender in the Food System Community Alliance for Global Justice

3. Food Sovereignty Beyond “Thinking Globally and Acting Locally”

4. Privilege and Exploitation Food Access and The Color of Food Up the Food Chain in the United States Naturalizing Exploitation: History of the Global Food System The “Corporate Food Regime”: International Trade and Corporate Power Standing in Solidarity

5. Food Access What kind of stores are in your neighborhood? Where do you shop? What do you see and how do you choose? If you had more/less money, how would your choices change?

6. Food Access

9. The Color of Food

11. Farm Work in the US

12. Holmes, Seth. 2013. Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies. Berkeley: University of California Press

14. American Agriculture in Historical Context

15. Food Regimes in Historical Context: A History of Exploitation A food regime is a "rule-governed structure of production and consumption of food on a world scale" (Friedman 1993a)" (110). ●First global food regime (1870-1930): Colonialism ●Second global food regime (1950s-1970s): American domination, International Development and the “Green Revolution” ●Third global food regime (1980s to the present): Corporate domination and expropriation.

16. Today: a Corporate Food Regime?

17. Trade and the Corporate Food Regime

18. NAFTA at 20: Mexico http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/1009

19. NAFTA at 20: USA http://www.citizen.org/food-under-nafta-wto Some findings: (In combination with 1996 Farm Bill) Disappearance of independent producers in certain industries (hogs, poultry, sheep) Farm consolidation – loss of mid-sized farms Limits on food labeling (especially COOL) Rising food costs and lowered pay to farmers in some sectors www.iatp.org/blog/201311/nafta-and-us- farmers%E2%80%9420-years-later#_edn1

20. NAFTA at 20: Who won? CARGILL- $350 million in 1992 to $597 million in 1999 (1/4 of grain trade to Mexico) Arthur Daniels Midland-$100 million in 1993 to $301 million in 2000 CONAGRA-$143 million in 1993 to $413 million in 2000 Banamex-owned by Citibank is Mexico’s #2 bank General Electric, General Motors, Chrysler, Ford, WalMart, Sony

21. Next Generation: The TPP

22. Whose deal?

24. Can everyone vote with their fork?

25. Beyond the “local economy” Adapted from: Martínez-Torres, María Elena, and Peter M. Rosset 2010 La Vía Campesina: The Birth and Evolution of a Transnational Social Movement. Journal of Peasant Studies 37(1): 149–175. Adapted from: Martínez-Torres, María Elena, and Peter M. Rosset 2010 La Vía Campesina: The Birth and Evolution of a Transnational Social Movement. Journal of Peasant Studies 37(1): 149–175.

26. CAGJ Solidarity Campaigns

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