Join Marion Nestle and Scott Barton as they dig deep into global food politics and corporate opportunism.

Agricultural workers and those who work in the world-wide food-industry are essential contributors to civil society. We all depend on their work. Yet they are physically and economically the most vulnerable of us all to the global Covid-19 pandemic, and they are often voiceless and powerless.

Discussion-leaders Marion Nestle and Scott Barton will start the conversation with an examination of the politics and policies that influence the supply of food worldwide at a time of crisis and beyond.  Together, as an international gathering, we'll search for answers in what we know of governmental and private-sector responses - good or bad - that can help us understand and combat the immediate and on-going risks to food supplies, public health, and food justice everywhere on the planet.

Marion Nestle’s long career and writings span food politics and public health, making her a leading voice in understanding and challenging injustices in food systems; she is the author, most recently, of Let’s Ask Marion (University of California Press 2020), blogs at foodpolitics.com and can be found on twitter, @marionnestle.

Scott Alves Barton teaches food studies at New York University; his work is international, with a special focus on food and political resistance in Brazil.