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Monthly Archives: June 2018
A #food tale of two cities – Cape Town and New York grappling to improve their food systems
About 20 people gathered in Cardiff in early June for a workshop on the role of cities in delivering food security and sustainability prior to a public conference on the new urban food agenda of sustainable food cities. In this … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged Cape Town, equity, food, food policy, food system, food systems, Gender, health, Jane Battersby, Nevin Cohen, New York, race
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It’s never, ever just #food: Food history helps us see the world as it is – a conversation with Dr Polly Russell
It may look like a quaint Victorian book on ice cream but behind it lies a tale of slavery and colonialism, that has shaped the tastes and food systems of today. This is one of the points to emerge in … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged Cadburys, Colonilaism, food, history, Ice cream, Polly Russell, Slavery
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The many arguments for urgent #climate action – in 32 A5 pages
How do you convince governments to take more urgent action on climate change? When ministries spend so much of their time, as one ex-downing street advisor once said to me, firefighting the immediate problems of the day? The authors of … Continue reading →