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Part 1 of Edible City’s 4-part Interview with Eric Holt-Giménez, from August 2008.
Eric is the Executive Director of Food First/Institute for Food Policy, a member-supported, nonprofit “people’s” think tank and education-for-action center, whose mission is to end the injustices that cause hunger, poverty and environmental degradation throughout the world.
In part 1 of the interview, Eric talks about Food First’s mission, and his 30 year odyssey in Latin America that led him to the cause of food justice. In Part 2, he discusses modern agriculture, how it came about, and the injustice it has created. In Part 3 he defines the food crisis and its root causes, and in Part 4 he discusses the role of Big Agribusiness in climate change and the role of justice in social change.
Eric is an advisor for Edible City.
