Anuradha Mittal - Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, Sep 24
When: September 24, 11:00am-12:30pm
Where: City Center - Carignano Theater - Sala Piazza Carignano, 6 10123 Torino
More info: Event website.
Executive Director Anuradha Mittal will be participating in the discussion "Can Agroecology Feed the World" with Miguel Altieri, and Yacouba Sawadogo.
Industrial agricultural systems are destroying the soil, wiping out biodiversity, depleting non-renewable resources, polluting the land, the air, the water... Regardless of this, industrial systems are not feeding the planet, nor are they economically sustainable: they only survive due to the corporate control of the food system and public funding. Agroecology, on the other hand, takes care of natural resources, values biodiversity, merging modern science with traditional knowledge in order to face the greatest challenge: feeding the planet with small-scale agriculture in an era of climate change.