Politics of Food & Nutrition
With this seminar Dr Antonio Ioris, School of Geosciences 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.
The Future of Our Food: Resilience, Security and Justice in a Global Context
Food banks boomed by 300% last year in Scotland alone...food waste is a catastrophic failure of political leadership
Throughout the day participants explored inter-scale connections, from Scotland and the UK to the international context, and 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?
Food production, distribution and consumption are highly politicised and contested matters, as they contain some of the fundamental contradictions of the globalised market economy and also reveal the profound social and spatial inequalities of our time
The day began with Keynote speaker Mike Small, Fife Diet, followed by an array of Practitioners and Academics
Wendy Wrieden, Human Nutrition Research Centre, Newcastle University
Karen Barton, Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research, University of Dundee
Bill Gray, Community Food & Health Scotland, NHS Health Scotland
Liz Dinnie, Foodscapes Project, James Hutton Institute
Nicholas Nisbett, Institute of Development Studies
Peter Faassen de Heer, Chief Medical Officer and Public Health Directorate, Scottish Government
Valeria Skafida, University of Edinburgh
Pete Ritchie, Nourish Scotland
Cesar Revoredo, Scotland’s Rural College