The rumours circulating around the future of the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) were made official on July 20, 2010 with a Prime Minister’s ministerial statement. The FSA is to remain as a non-ministerial department …
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With our planet’s ever increasing human population the need and want of increasing food supplies has been an ongoing theme. Our food system, which contains within it the tension between our appetites for food and our management of finite and fragile ecosystem resources, has not been exemplary. As our population continues to swell choices between ecological sustainability and industrialization of food production are being forced, presenting a conflict of values as much as one of methods.
In this upcoming Earthwatch Lecture, “Farming and Sustainable Environments”, Prof Ken Norris, Dr Mark Chandler and Julia Bradbury will discourse the “conflicting urgencies of intensifying agriculture and conserving ecosystems”. The lecture will be hosted by the Royal Geographical Society on 17 March 2010.
More information regarding the event and how to book a place can be found here.
In 2008, the British Sociological Association’s (BSA) Food Study Group hosted a conference entitled “Food, Society and Public Health”. As a result of the success of that conference a 2nd BSA Food Study Group Conference …
Warren Belasco has been both pioneer and archaeologist for thought surrounding food in American culture, his voice has been illuminating and grounding for those seeking to understand the relationships between food, culture, identity and responsibility. …
Dr Vandana Shiva is an exceptional personality and her work has been a driving force for the international ecology and feminist movements since the 1970s. While her academic accomplishments are remarkable and international accolades well …
Birkbeck University’s Institute of Environment, in partnership with the Ecology and Conservation Studies Society, continue to offer their excellent free lecture series on ecology and conservation issues. The Spring 2010 series has focussed on the …
Chatham House’s Royal Institute for International Affairs is internationally respected as one of the leading centres for independent analysis in the world. This Chatham House publication, The Feeding of the Nine Billion: Global Food Security …
Dr. Barry Popkin has done pioneering work on the ‘Nutrition Transition’, how commercial urbanization is altering diets, with consideration to environment, income, lifestyle and food availability. The nutrition transition examines how dietary habits are transitioning …
Geoff Tansey’s book, The Future Control of Food: A Guide to International Negotiations and Rules on Intellectual Property, Biodiversity and Food Security, has been out for a while but the content is as relevant now …
This short film, Making Markets Work in Africa, by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) provides a quick overview of the challenges faced by African farmers in participating in agricultural markets. The video is presented …
There has been significant discussion over food and beverage advertising targeted at children, particularly through the medium of television. This journal article entitled, Prevalence of Food and Beverage Brands in Movies: 1996-2005 by Pediatrics, Official …
Sector-wide approaches (SWAps) were introduced to the agricultural sector in the 1990s in an effort to coordinate governmental budgets and activities. The aim of SWAs was to increase efficiency and effectiveness by coordinating stakeholder activities …
