CANCELED Spring 2013 Seminar Series: Jennifer Clapp

Join the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the UPEP Environmental Institution for our Spring 2013 seminar series featuring leading experts discussing a variety of pressing environmentally focused topics.University of Waterloo Professor Jennifer Clapp will present "The Financialization of Food: Implications for Hunger and the Environment."In this talk, Clapp unpacks the implications of financialization in the food system. She looks at the forces and actors involved in financial investment in agriculture, how financialization manifests and with what impact for global hunger and the environment.