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  • 09.12.
    2019
    09:00 - 12:00

    “Food Inequalities: Power, Politics & Pesticides” Workshop in Berlin

    Pesticides offer “food for thought” in understanding various dimensions of food inequalities: environmental chemical contamination and health problems affecting farm workers and nearby communities, environmental racism, the loss of biodiversity, and the contribution to climate change through fossil-fuel-based chemicals. Struggles around pesticides are characterized by knowledge asymmetries vis-à-vis- its safety and gendered politicisation, as women usually assume the burden to care for the sick and fight contamination. Global inequalities are expressed in the fact that most of the hazardous pesticides are prohibited in its producing countries but sold in developing ones. This workshop will discuss research findings of Larissa Bombardi, Renato Balbim and Renata Motta. We will examine the possibilities of interdisciplinary research on pesticides and beyond.

    Further information here:
    https://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/food-for-justice/events/2019_12_09_WokshopPesticides.html

    Date:
    09.12.2019 09:00 - 12:00