Thursday, November 17 at 9:00 pm is the scheduled time for the 2011 ACAS annual meeting, in the Jefferson Room at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel (2660 Woodley Road, NW) in Washington, D.C. in , at the African Studies Association annual meeting. All interested scholars are welcome.
ACAS sponsored panel:
Agriculture, Food and Ongoing Struggles for Food Sovereignty: Paths to Contributing to Africa’s Liberation?
Thursday, November 17, 8:00-10:00 am
Chairs: Bill Derman, Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Noah Zerbe, Humboldt State University
Anne Ferguson, Michigan State University and Sieglinde Snapp, Michigan State University
From Food Shortages to Food Sovereignty: Malawi’s Troubled Road to Sustainable Agricultural Development Miriam Chaiken, New Mexico State University (mchaiken@nmsu.edu), and Richard Dixon, Save the Children (radixon@noble.org), Community Mobilization, Human Agency, and Shock Avoidance: Strategies to Promote Food Security in Africa
Ashley Fent, Columbia University (amf2193@columbia.edu), Engineering the Neoliberal Woman: A Critical Feminist Analysis of the Gates Foundation’s Gender Analysis
Bill Derman and Anne Hellum, University of Oslo, Water Scarcity, Water Security and the Right to Water
Noah Zerbe, Urban Food Sovereignty: Environmental Justice and Food Justice in Durban, South Africa
Other ACAS-related panels :
The Politics of Liberation: Transformations (Part I), Saturday, November 19, 8-10 am (chaired by Leslie Hadfield) and The Politics of Liberation: Contested Meanings (Part II), Saturday, November 19, 1:15-12:15
What Role Now for National Security Funding of African Studies? ASA Board of Directors Current Issues Plenary: (with ACAS members Carl Levan and David Wiley as two of three panelists), Friday, November 18, 2:15 pm