Did you know that there are no federal protections that guarantee citizens a right to food in the United States? Researcher and professor Josh Lohnes will lead a conversation on the right to food framework, exploring its core principles, policy implications, and practical applications. This webinar will also highlight successful examples of this framework in action and offer a deeper understanding of how the right to food framework can shape food security policies and practices for the better.
Event Speakers
Josh Lohnes
Research Assistant Professor of Geography, West Virginia University
Joshua Lohnes is a broadly trained human geographer well versed in theories of development, political ecology, and food studies.
He serves as a research assistant professor in the department of geology and geography at WVU advancing questions related to agri-food systems governance with an emphasis on the political economy of nutrition assistance programs. His PhD dissertation The Food Bank Fix: Hunger, Capitalism and Humanitarian Reason (2019) drew on a multi-sited institutional ethnography of emergency food networks in West Virginia to uncover the relationships between the state, private businesses and the nonprofit sector that maintain feeding lines in place and linked across space. He is building on this work to continue to study the moral, political, and economic place of expanding humanitarian food networks across the world and how these might fit within broader debates about sustainable food futures.