The Starvation of Gaza, Palestinian Food Sovereignty & Questions of Accountability

ACGIS Guest Lecture with Garrett Graddy-Lovelace

Thursday, September 5, 2024 4:30 PM EDT
Merten Hall, 1202

Millions of people in Gaza face catastrophic food insecurity, even as food aid rots at militarized border crossings. Scores of children have died of lethal hunger and dehydration, and yet major food security institutions, academic programs, and news media in the United States barely mention the horror—much less its perpetrators: the Israeli government, military forces, and settlers, alongside US government and elite accomplices. How has this fast, ferocious deliberate famine happened, hidden by dominant US media—and yet circulated and grieved globally? What constitutes accountability, as international law buckles with the hypocrisy and contradictions of impunity. Meanwhile, in the face of occupation, apartheid, and now genocide, Palestinians have long forged (agri)cultural survival as the basis of food and land sovereignty. 

 

About Garrett Graddy-Lovelace:

Provost Associate Professor at American University School of International Service’s Environment, Development & Health Department, where she researches and teaches agricultural policy and agrarian geography. She has published on agrobiodiversity, land use, and the geopolitics of food and has a Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, a PhD in Geography from University of Kentucky, and a longstanding focus on traditional (agro)ecological knowledge for climate resilience and justice.

 

Read Dr.Graddy-Lovelace's article here: https://themaydan.com/2024/07/the-starvation-of-gaza-palestinian-food-sovereignty-the-question-of-accountability/