Food Sovereignty: Challenging Corporate Takeover of our Food System

Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2004 at 7:30
Langone Center Forum

Anuradha Mittal
Director of the Oakland Institute

Anuradha Mittal, a native of India, is an internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights and agricultural issues. She is the author and editor of numerous articles and books including America NeedsHuman Rights, The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance, and Voices From theSouth: Third World Speaks Out Against Genetic Engineering. Her articles and opinion pieces have been published in widely circulated newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Bangkok Post, Economic and Political Weekly, Houston Chronicle, and the Nation. Ms. Mittal has given several hundred keynote addresses including invitational events from governments and universities, and has appeared on television and radio shows around the world. She is the founder and executive director of a new policy think tank, The Oakland Institute. Prior to this she was the co-director of Food First/ Institute for Food and Development Policy. Ms. Mittal serves on boards of several non-profit organizations including Polaris USA.