“Collectively, we have to get with the idea that we’re living on the same planet as everybody else, and we can’t go around trashing it,” says Patel.
Watch “The Ants & the Grasshopper” @ SXSW
On March 15, 2022, Food Tank will screen “The Ants & the Grasshopper” a documentary about Anita Chitaya’s journey from Malawi to California to the White House as she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. A post-screening panel discussion will feature Co-Director Raj Patel and Dr. Karen Magid from Huston-Tillotson University.
Nine Quotes and Questions to Guide The Food System Through This Year
After a year of conversations with incredible thought leaders from across the food system, we’re rounding up nine key questions they raised that will helps us think through the next year of food system transformation.
‘Inflamed’ Makes the Case for Deep Medicine
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel unpack how injustice is making the world sick.
COP26 Event: Film Screening – The Ants and the Grasshopper
“The Ants the the Grasshopper” is a new documentary by author, filmmaker and academic Raj Patel showing how the fight for climate action will also be a battle for food sovereignty, racial justice, and gender equality around the world. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Danielle Nierenberg and Raj Patel.
Food Talk Live: Raj Patel and Rupa Marya
Raj Patel, economist and food systems activist, and Rupa Marya, physician and advocate for health justice, discuss their new book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. The book unpacks the complexities of healthcare in a modern world.
Food Workers Are On The Front Line In The Fight Against COVID-19, Says Patel
Dani Nierenberg talks with Raj Patel, Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, about the impact of COVID-19 on food and farm workers.
