Raj Patel
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Raj Patel is a member of the IPES-Food panel, a film-maker, best-selling author, and a research professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.
His research on political ecology and food systems has been widely translated and taught, particularly his book “Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System” (2012). He has testified about the causes of the global food crisis to the US House Financial Services Committee and the European Union, and has conducted research across different scales of policy – from global hunger, to the needs of low income communities in Austin, Texas.
He recently completed an award-winning documentary project on climate change, gender and agroecology, The Ants & The Grasshopper. He has scholarly publications in economics, philosophy, politics and public health journals, writes for a range of newspapers, and is committed to democratizing political ecological debate. He has a PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University.
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