TOMORROW NIGHT!!
Discussion and Q&A with authors, Andy Fisher and Graham Riches
Tuesday, October 2nd | 7:00pm – 8:30pmMount Pleasant Neighbourhood House800 East Broadway, Vancouver
Cost: Free, no RSVP required
Join us for this free
event, an evening of conversation with authors Graham Riches and Andy
Fisher. Both of their recently published books critically explore the root
causes of food insecurity in the Global North. Their work puts the adequacy of
food banks on trial as a primary solution to this nation-wide issue. We will
hear from both authors, and open up the room for conversation and questions from
the audience. Light refreshments will be provided.
Andy Fisher is a
leading national expert on community food security in the USA, and author of
the recently published Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance
between Corporate America and Anti Hunger Groups (MIT Press,
2017). He is a co-founder of the Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC),
which has successfully brought together food security advocates across the
country and influenced federal nutritional legislation. More recently he served
as the Executive Director at Portland Fruit Tree Program (2015-2017). Andy
Fisher currently consults on various food system organizations and speaks
throughout North America about his vision for addressing hunger.
Graham
Riches is a former Director of UBC’s School of Social Work (1998 –
2008), and author of Food Bank Nations: Poverty,
Corporate Charity and the Right to Food (Routledge, 2018). He
is a co-founder of Vancouver Food Policy Council and has written extensively
about food poverty in Canada and first world hunger in wealthy nation states
from a right to food perspective.
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