ESRC Seminar Series
“The Politics of Food and Nutrition: Resilience, Security and Justice in a Global Context”
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, Edinburgh
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
This seminar brought together academics, policy-makers and civil society organizations to discuss and examine the multiple socio-economic, environmental and health-related dimensions of food and nutrition. It explored inter-scale connections, from Scotland and the UK to the international context, and specifically addressed the following questions:
How are nutrition and food questions mediated by social and political inequalities?
What are the prospects for food security in the current agri-food context?
What roles do alternative responses and movements play in challenging food cultures?
Does current policy-making adequately address the politics of food, health and nutrition?
Programme
Antonio Ioris- Welcome by the Future of our Food research team
Keynote speaker: Mike Small, Fife Diet
The Complexity of Nutrition and Food Production
Cesar Revoredo- Scotland's Rural College
Wendy Wrieden- Human Nutrition Research Centre, Newcastle University
Trends, problems and alternatives
Liz Dinnie- Foodscapes Project, James Hutton Institute
Bill Gray- Community Food and Health Scotland, NHS Health Scotland
Pete Ritchie- Nourish Scotland
Policy making and future prospects
Video session organised by University of Edinburgh graduate students
Valeria Skafida- University of Edinburgh
Peter Faassen de Heer- Diet Policy, Scottish Government
Robin Gourlay- Scottish Government
Rapporteurs’ summaries (University of Edinburgh graduate students)
General discussion
The Future of our Food is a major new seminar series funded by the UK Economic and Social Sciences Research Council. It brings people together to jointly explore emerging challenges in agriculture and food in the UK and globally. Each seminar explores themes of resilience, sustainability, nutritional security, public health, well-being and justice in the food system.