Raj Patel

Raj Patel is a British-born American writer, activist, and academic. He has worked for the World Bank and WTO and been tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved and The Value of Nothing. More

Raj Patel is a British-born American writer, activist, and academic. He has worked for the World Bank and WTO and been tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved and The Value of Nothing. 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. He is currently an IATP Food and Community Fellow. He has testified about the causes of the global food crisis to the US House Financial Services Committee and is an Advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
Abolish the Food Industry

Abolish the Food Industry

If public health is a legitimate reason to curb corporations' advertising to kids, why limit bans to cigarettes, booze, and toys in happy meals, and not include, say, all unhealthy food? More »

Why We Shouldn't Cut Food Stamps to Pay for School Lunch

Why We Shouldn't Cut Food Stamps to Pay for School Lunch

Child nutrition reform could reduce food stamps by $2 billion—and when food stamps disappear, our whole country suffers More »

Saving the World with Che, Mao, and Carrots

Saving the World with Che, Mao, and Carrots

A sustainable future will require a new approach to agriculture. On Guerrilla Gardening might just be its manifesto. More »

What Does It Mean To Go Hungry?

After news broke that 43 million Americans experience hunger, the author explores what the term means. More »

Disappointment at the World Food Summit

The author decodes the declaration made at the UN's hunger conference--and says why it falls short. More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Picking up the Pieces After the Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma

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