Food systems are shaped by power - by who controls resources, who sets the rules, and whose interests are protected. When power is ignored, efforts to improve sustainability, nutrition, and equity remain marginal and fragile.

The session (and series), examines how meaningful food systems transformation depends on confronting power directly: redistributing control over land, water, and seeds; reducing corporate concentration; reclaiming public and collective responsibility for food access; and challenging policy narratives that normalize unsustainability, exclusion, and inequity.

Speakers
José Luis Chicoma, Program Chair 2024–25, The Future of Food, THE NEW INSTITUTE, Former Minister of Production of Peru, & Kristin Reynolds, Chair and Associate Professor of Food Studies and Director, Food & Social Justice Action Research Lab, The New School.

Kristin Reynolds, Chair and Associate Professor of Food Studies and Director, Food & Social Justice Action Research Lab, The New School.

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