Raj Patel
- Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist and academic. He’s currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley’s Center for African Studies, an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a fellow at The Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First.
Books by Raj Patel
Food Rebellions!
Crisis and the Hunger for Justice
Eric Holt-Giménez, Raj Patel
Erosion of local and national control: takes a deep look at the world food crisis and its impact on the global South and under-served communities in the industrial North. While most governments and multilateral organisations offer short-term solutions based on proximate causes, authors Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel unpack the planet’s environmentally and economically vulnerable food systems to reveal the root causes of the crisis. By tracking the political and economic evolution of… (more information)