Miguel Altieri - 2018 Dodge Lecture

September 21, 2018 Transform or Reform? 18th Annual Edward & Nancy Dodge Lecture Flyer Miguel Altieri When talking about how to address looming problems in the current global food system, Miguel Altieri, PhD, likes to quote Albert Einstein: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Altieri was speaking at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as the honored guest of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future’s 18th annual Edward and Nancy Dodge Lecture, with Edward Dodge’s son, Randall Dodge, in attendance. The lecture was hosted with the Center by the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. Altieri, who spent the past 37 years at the University of California, Berkeley, as professor of agroecology (now professor emeritus), shared his ideas about what he believes should be our alternative agricultural system: an agroecology based on centuries-old socioecological and cultural systems used by indigenous and peasant communities. He referred to the “campesino a campesino” movement as a methodology to use as a model for distributing knowledge and called for a “re-peasantization” of food systems.