RAJ PATEL: “HOW TO FEED OURSELVES TOMORROW”. The Food Systems Centre at the Sustainability Institute and the Southern Africa Food Lab are proud to present internationally acclaimed academic, author and activist, Raj Patel. Raj is unquestionably one of the world’s leading thinkers on the future of the food system and a prolific global activist.

‘How We Can Feed Ourselves TUESDAY FOR Tomorrow’ will address the 6 6.30PM following: Something’s wrong 6PM ARRIVAL AND SNACKS 6.30PM – 8PM when nearly 800 million people are 21 TALK BY RAJ, FOLLOWED malnourished and nearly 2 billion JUNE 2016 BY Q&A SESSION overweight, when we’d need several planets’ worth of resources to eat the Guest House The Sustainability Institute, Lynedoch Ecovillage, Off Baden Powell Drive, Stellenbosch way that the average American does, and when 40% of the world’s food is COST PLEASE RSVP wasted. There are, however, some FREE [email protected] promising solutions, from Africa and beyond, that offer paths to a more Seats are limited, so please RSVP as soon as possible to secure your seat. Your seat is only reserved once you sustainable, robust and just food have received a confirmation email in response. system. This talk will explore their common features, and impediments Conversations in Soil, Soul and Society Interesting talks and a chance to network with friends, students, to their progress. alumni and SI staff. ABOUT RAJ PATEL Advisor to Olivier De Schutter, angle using a complex the former United Nations systems approach, and Raj Patel is an award-winning Special Rapporteur on the Right combining experiential and writer, activist and academic. to Food. formal academic teaching He is a Research Professor In addition to numerous methodologies, in a global in the Lyndon B Johnson scholarly publications in South-relevant context. School of Public Affairs at the economics, philosophy, politics University of Texas, Austin and and public health journals, THE SOUTHERN a Senior Research Associate at he regularly writes for The AFRICA FOOD LAB the Unit for the Humanities at Guardian. His first book was the university currently known Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden The Southern Africa Food Lab as Rhodes University (UHURU), Battle for the World Food System is an initiative brings together South Africa. and his latest, The Value of diverse, influential stakeholders He has degrees from the Nothing, is a New York Times in southern African food University of Oxford, the best-seller. systems in order to respond to London School of Economics systemic issues in creative ways and Cornell University, has SUSTAINABILITY and to inspire change in how worked for the World Bank and INSTITUTE’S FOOD we think and act on complex WTO, and protested against SYSTEMS CENTRE social challenges. The purpose them around the world. He of the SAFL is to facilitate the has been a visiting scholar The Sustainability Institute’s interaction, communication, at UC Berkeley’s Center for Food Systems Centre provides and collaboration between African Studies, an Honorary a space to explore approaches different stakeholders, Research Fellow at the School to creating socially equitable including those with conflicting of Development Studies at food systems that restore interests, to highlight the the University of KwaZulu- rather than destroy the need for and to design and Natal and continues to be a ecosystems within which all implement coherent, systemic fellow at The Institute for Food societies are embedded. The responses to the food system and Development Policy, also FSC is unique in offering food through collaborative learning known as Food First. Raj was an courses from a sustainability and experimental action.