Food, Finance and Democracy in Crisis
by Raj Patel (edited and introduced by Ethan Genauer), Energy Bulletin

The 2009 29th annual Ecological Farming Conference kicked off on January 21 in beautiful, rainy Pacific Grove, CA with a provocative, pointed, timely, and at-times hilarious keynote address on "Food, Financial Stability and Democracy in Crisis" by Raj Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, a new critically acclaimed book about the causes and consequences of global food inequity.

Links: Raj Patel Website of writer, activist and academic, Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved, Slow Food Nation interview: Raj Patel