Food Sovereignty for Poor Countries in the Global Trading System
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I would like to thank the Colloquia Committee of Loyola University College of Law for inviting me to give this year’s Brendan Brown Lecture. I am honored to join a very distinguished list of prior lecturers. My lecture was inspired by my visit to the South Pacific on a United Nations mission in the summer of 2010. I travelled to Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands. Each of these countries comprises a series of islands in the South Pacific. While tourists tend to remember these tropical islands for their scenic beauty, few realize that on these tropical islands, less nutritious, commercially grown foods threaten to displace locally grown foods.
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