Category Archives: Reports

Ethics, ecological consciousness and rethinking #agriculture – a lot to digest at Turkish Agricultural and #Food #Ethics Association’s 2nd International Congress

Posted on 18 November 2019 by Geoff Tansey

A wide range of issues across food and farming were discussed at the 2nd International Agricultural and Food Ethics Congress organised by the Turkish Agricultural and Food Ethics Association. The congress was held on 24-25 October 2019 in Izmir, Turkey, … Continue reading →

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Resilience in the UK #foodsystem – 4 key questions

Posted on 18 September 2019 by Geoff Tansey

Resilience is one of the buzzwords of our times. Having a resilient food system is crucial in the light of climate destabilisation, biodiversity loss, and political changes such as will be brought about by Brexit in the UK. So what … Continue reading →

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Food Justice, law, trade and food policy – making links, making changes.

Posted on 5 April 2019 by Geoff Tansey

What have lawyers got to do with Food Justice? And how do you get lawyers to interact with others tacking food insecurity and hunger. These were some of the issues a range of academics were discussing at a Symposium at … Continue reading →

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Feeding history: the politics of #food

Posted on 26 March 2019 by Geoff Tansey

There’s a small room on the right as you go in the main entrance of the British Museum. It is there that I met Yi Chen, curator of the ‘The Asahi Shimbun Displays. Feeding history: the politics of food’ exhibition, … Continue reading →

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Plant-based #foods and going #plastic free key themes at #ife2019

Posted on 21 March 2019 by Geoff Tansey

I’ve been going to the biannual international food and drink event (ife2019) on and off for years. Ife2019 finished yesterday and I spent a couple of afternoons wandering around chatting to some of the 1350 exhibitors to get a feel … Continue reading →

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#Brexit, #food and disruptive governance – there’s trouble ahead

Posted on 13 December 2018 by Geoff Tansey

As the Brexit debacle shambles on in the UK, what it signifies is part of a bigger shift that Prof Terry Marsden calls disruptive governance. This has profound implications for the food system and supply chains.  In this interview, he … Continue reading →

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Artificial Intelligence (#AI) and #Sustainable #Food Systems – help or hindrance?

Posted on 7 December 2018 by Geoff Tansey

Last month, the day after the world’s scientific academies warned that global food systems are failing humanity and speeding up climate change, I was at a workshop at Chatham House on “Artificial intelligence for a sustainable and healthy food system“. … Continue reading →

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Taking responsibility for a #sustainable #food future?

Posted on 3 December 2018 by Geoff Tansey

Whose responsibility is it to ensure we have a sustainable food future? That was the theme of this year’s food conference at Chatham House – the Royal Institute of International affairs – at the end of November 2018. The 6 … Continue reading →

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#Food’s role in creating healthier, happier #cities for all

Posted on 29 October 2018 by Geoff Tansey

Belfast in Northern Ireland is, unfortunately, perhaps best known for the decades of violence, called the Troubles, and as the place where the ill-fated Titantic was built. While the local TV news bulletins were reflecting about how the start of … Continue reading →

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Future #Food #Sustainability and research needs for the UK and EU facing #Brexit?

Posted on 23 July 2018 by Geoff Tansey

I was at an horizon scanning workshop organised by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics last week to discuss the future of food sustainability in the UK. It was run under the Chatham House rule, which means you can say things … Continue reading →

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