📢 We're recruiting a four-year fully paid PhD researcher to study the role of law in food systems transformation under my supervision Amsterdam Law School. Projects on labour in food systems & Global South perspectives particularly welcome. Deadline: 15 April. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-po…

Join us for this exciting workshop in January!

Join our CFS side-event to discuss data governance in the digitalization of the food system

📆Tuesday 24 October
🕐8:30 CET
w/CSIPM, Michael Fakhri & Gobierno de México, moderated by Patti Naylor

🔗Register fao.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

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🚀Out now: “They will feed us! A people’s route to African food sovereignty,” an autonomous assessment of the UN #FoodSystems Summit pathways & #Dakar2compacts by the CSIPM African Popular Consultation space. ➡️csm4cfs.org/they-will-feed… #FoodSystems 4People #UNFSS2023 #16Oct23

✍️In this essay, Maywa Montenegro & Matt Canfield explore how the capitalist paradigm of agricultural productivism has resulted in disastrous consequences for human health & the environment. #DataProductivism #Agriculture #GlobalChallenges Thread ⬇️ (1/4) botpopuli.net/feeding-the-wo…

Great thread on the politics of the English in Dutch higher ed.

Re-thinking the Green Revolution with Glenn Stone theconversation.com/the-green-revo…

Folks thinking about going to the 2024 Law and Society conference in Denver, please consider submitting an abstract to a panel that Meg Davis and I are organizing on 'Translating Human Rights in the Digital Age.' Anthropologists and ethnographers are especially encouraged to join us

Is closing ‘data gaps‘ a solution to reduce hunger? Smallholder farmers, indigenous, and worker communities already have enough data and knowledge. Paper by Matt Canfield Maywa Montenegro on #digitalizaion of #agruculture . botpopuli.net/feeding-the-wo…

Our bonus third feature, authored by Maywa Montenegro & Matt Canfield tracks recent developments in the #digitalization of #agriculture & the complex politics around the datasets that are generated from our food systems. botpopuli.net/feeding-the-wo…

Noticed how data is the latest phantasmagorium to “empower the poor with knowledge” ?

Matt Canfield and I boiled our JPS paper into an essay about the coloniality of 'data gaps' & the upshots of 'Feeding the World with More Data.'

botpopuli.net/feeding-the-wo…
thanks to Bot Populi!

'In this tour de force, writer Rocker, Muehlebach offers readers ethnographic insight into the vital issue of water sovereignty' Political and Legal Anthropology Review Andrea Muehlebach Kailey Rocker
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Looking forward to this event on Thursday!

Support the authors of 'Sexual Misconduct in Academia' whose book has been withdrawn from circulation after a 'star professor' who recognised himself in one chapter threatened Routledge with legal action. #MeTooAcademia #NotMyAcademia
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Must read cover story in The Nation telling the story of the corporate takeover of African agricultural and seed systems. thenation.com/article/world/…. Featuring the important work of Joeva Rock ACBIO GRAIN Timothy A. Wise

If I organized a Decolonial & Anti-Colonial Conference, who would be interested in attending? Who would help me organize to invite potential speakers, panelists, attendees? Fill this form out and share widely.
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Excited to be participating in this conversation!

Our next #TheFutureWeSee talkshow, will be about
🌶️ #foodsystems 🥦 that really serve the well-being of people and the planet.

🍀 Moderation: Farid Tabarki studiozeitgeist

➡️ Get your tickets now on …uturewesee-foodsystems.eventbrite.com

Matt Canfield John Arink PELUM Kenya NJR - Nationale Jeugdraad

**Reminder**

Call for Papers for our Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Workshop ➡️ The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms

Apply by *end of September* 👇

📣New paper in JPS 📣
If you agree that land relations tend to hinder scaling the impact of agroecology, the question then becomes:

How can entrenched norms of property be transformed?

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