Tag Archives: sustainability

Coalition aims to Make Agroecology mainstream says Emile Frison

Posted on 9 October 2023 by Geoff Tansey

Emile Frison is senior advisor to the recently-founded Agroecology Coalition. In this interview he explains their aim to make agroecology mainstream in transforming food systems and the core principles that make agroecology a whole food system approach. He also discusses … Continue reading →

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Conflict, hunger and avoiding a world further divided

Posted on 27 October 2022 by Geoff Tansey

Conflict, hunger and food insecurity are inexplicably linked. That is why I have always been concerned about the wider dimensions of development beyond the food system. Forty years ago next year, I help convene a workshop on militarism and development. … Continue reading →

Posted in Comments | Tagged biodiversity, climate change, conflict, hunger, inequality, militarism, security, sustainability | 1 Comment

Sitopia: how food can save the world – an interview with Carolyn Steel

Posted on 15 May 2020 by Geoff Tansey

In her wide ranging book ‘Sitopia: how food can save the world’ Carolyn Steel aims to provide a tool with which to think – and re-think – the world through food. In this interview, she explains the meaning of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Interviews | Tagged Carolyn Steel, culture, environment, food, food policy, food systems, good life, sustainability, wellbeing | Leave a comment

Feeding Britain: our food problems and how to fix them

Posted on 10 May 2020 by Geoff Tansey

Tim Lang, professor of Food Policy at City University, London, spends 2 years writing Feeding Britain: our food problems and how to fix them and when it comes out it is in the midst of a global pandemic when feeding … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Interviews | Tagged Britain, COVID-19, environment, food, food policy, food systems, health, labout, poverty, sustainability, UK | Leave a comment

From #food #waste to #sustainable #foodsystems – digging deep into the reasons why and changes needed

Posted on 13 September 2019 by Geoff Tansey

Unusually, I spent yesterday, a warm and sunny September day, mostly outdoors in a short-sleeved shirt at a workshop held at the green oasis of Calthorpe Community Garden, near Kings Cross Station in London. Around 30 people had been gathered … Continue reading →

Posted in Interviews | Tagged circular economy, food, food systems, Food waste, London, sustainability, Sustainable Societies | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Reports | Tagged agricultural policy, Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, food, food systems, sustainability, sustainable diets, technology | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Interviews, Reports | Tagged Africa, agricultural biodiversity, Agriculture, biodiversity, Cargill, Chatham House, climate change, committee on Food Security, Farming, food, GAIN, IFPRI, malnutrition, right to food, Scaling Up Nutrition, sustainability | Leave a comment

#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 →

Posted in Comments, Reports | Tagged Belfast, cities, food, health, sustainability, World Health Organisation | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Comments, Reports | Tagged Brexit, environment, Farming, food, Food Ethics Council, Food Research Collaboration, food security, health, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, nutrition, nutrition security, research, sustainability | Leave a comment

From #diet for a small planet, to myths about world #hunger to living democracy and hope – a conversation with Frances Moore Lappé

Posted on 16 August 2016 by Geoff Tansey

It was quite fitting that Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) invited Frances Moore Lappé to give a keynote speech at its 2nd birthday party in mid-July. Frances has had a huge impact with her work spanning … Continue reading →

Posted in Conversations | Tagged democracy, Farming, food, food security, food system, hope, hunger, poverty, Small Planet Institute, sustainability | 1 Comment