Our Food, Our Environment

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Environmental Awareness or Gastronomy - can we have both?

19 May 2023

FoodCiTi is a research centre with a particular interest in interdisciplinary projects about food, health and sustainability. We are researchers with a diverse range of interests, publications and research projects. FoodCiTi has successfully hosted two previous international conferences. The event will involve different kinds of stakeholders and will combine academic presentations and papers with talks by organisations and individuals who care about food, sustainability and the environment. We welcome abstracts for academic papers, oral and poster presentations, as well as food-related projects. Oral presentations will be grouped into panels and limited to 15 minutes plus questions.

Topics for all modes of presentation can include, but are not limited to:
● Food and the environment
● Health and food issues
● Cultural and media representations of food and the environment
● Psychology of food and drink
● Food security
● Food recycling
● Local food producers
● Public procurement and environmentally friendly food
● Food and Agri-economics
● Community food production
● Environmental food projects
● Food writing
● Vegan and/or organic production of food
● Supermarkets, Farm Shops and/or independent shops
● Smallholdings, allotments and self-sufficiency
● Historical and heritage approaches to food and the environment
● National and international food sustainability