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SUMMARY:Critical Foodscapes: what does the future hold for urban gardening?
DESCRIPTION:-A One Day Conference on July 7th 2016 at the University of Warwick\, UK– \nConfirmed Keynote: Dr Chiara Tornaghi (Centre for Agroecology\, Water and Resilience\, Coventry University\, UK) \nUrban gardening has long promised radical alternatives to industrialised food production and the organisation of modern urban spaces. Yet despite recent increases in popularity and a conspicuous proliferation of its forms\, urban gardening appears to have had minimal material influence on how we eat or how we live. \nIt is now time to ask what the future holds for urban gardening. What evidence is emerging of urban gardening’s social and environmental impacts? Can such forms really mitigate some of the major crises of our times – from mental illness and unemployment to the unsustainability of our food systems – or do they remain a fringe concern? And what changes – at the level of policy or grassroots mobilisation (or otherwise) – are required to maximise the impact and reach of future iterations of urban gardening? \nThis conference seeks to put critical – but constructive – pressure on some of the assumptions which underlie current theory and practice of urban gardening; as such\, the conference organisers welcome papers encompassing a broad range of approaches and perspectives (whether research-\, practitioner- or participant-orientated) considering the past\, present and future of urban gardening. The conference will take the UK as its main focus but will accommodate international perspectives where possible. Papers might address\, though not be limited to\, the following topics:\n· Community gardens\n· Community supported agriculture\n· Urban and peri-urban food production\n· The cultural representation of urban gardens\n· Urban gardening and…\n– local/national food policy\n– grassroots activism\n– food production\n– mental health\n– town planning\n– education\n– environmental sustainability\n– economic sustainability\n– emergency food aid \nPlease send 300 word abstracts and 100 word biographies to Dr C Maughan (IAS Early Career Fellow\, University of Warwick) by Monday 11th April 2016: christopher.maughan[@]warwick.ac.uk.\nFollowing the conference\, speakers and delegates are encouraged to submit papers to a proposed special issue with the journal\, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems\, subject to the peer-review process. \nFor more information\, updates and to register see the conference website.
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/critical-foodscapes-what-does-the-future-hold-for-urban-gardening/
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SUMMARY:What does the right to food mean in practice? Experiences from India\, Brazil and Scotland
DESCRIPTION:Book via EventBrite \nThe Food Foundation invites you to join a seminar to consider experiences of implementing the right to adequate food and nutrition.  Along with most other countries in the world\, the UK is a signatory to the International Covenant on Economic\, Social and Cultural Rights.  Article 11 requires that states recognise the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living including adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger.  Some countries of the world including Brazil and India have captured this obligation into their national legislative frameworks.  In the UK there is considerable debate as to whether enough is being done by public authorities to protect our most disadvantaged households from food insecurity.  Most recently the Food Foundation shone a light on new UN statistics which estimate that 8.4 million people could be living in households affected by food insecurity in the UK.   This event will draw on international experience to discuss to what extent a stronger legal framework around the right to food could help to protect households from food insecurity in the UK. \nWelcome:  Deputy Chief of Mission\, Minister Ana Maria de Souza Bierrenbach \nChair:  Anna Taylor\, Executive Director Food Foundation \nSpeakers: \nBiraj Patnaik\, Principal Adviser  on the Right to Food to the Commissioners of the Supreme Court in India\nBiraj will discuss how India has enshrined the right to food into law\, what this means in practice for its citizens and the lessons which have been learned. \nElli Kontorravdis\, Policy & Campaigns Officer\, Nourish Scotland\nElli will present Nourish Scotland’s recent report to the UN Committee on Econmic\, Social and Cultural Rights on the right to food as part of the UN’s 6th period review of the UK. \nProfessor Sergio Schneider\, Professor of Sociology of Rural Development and Food Studies Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS/Brazil\nSergio will discuss how Brazil has enshrined the right to food into law\, what this means in practice for its citizens and the lessons which have been learned. \n  \nPanel comments: (TBC)\n \nPlenary discussion
URL:https://foodresearch.org.uk/event/what-does-the-right-to-food-mean-in-practice-experiences-from-india-brazil-and-scotland/
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