The Future of Food Symposium 2021: From Recovery to Resilience

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Wednesday 08 September 2021 to Thursday 09 September 2021

09:00 AM - 05:00 PM

Location

Online

Cost

Free

Current levels of global consumption and production are unsustainable and require transformative changes to meet the emission reductions required to avoid catastrophic climate change (Alfredsson et al., 2018). Food remains a topic at the centre of this sustainable transition with its future critical to the livelihood and wellbeing of both people and planet. The wide reaching impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic has reframed such challenges. Bringing to light both unforeseen problems and at the same time exacerbating existing issues. Insight into the disruption of the pandemic is increasingly being shared by academics and practitioners. We propose this symposium as an opportunity to better understand not only the road to recovery towards a more sustainable food system, but also as a space to discuss, depict and devise what a more resilient transition pathway looks like.

We invite stakeholders across business and society to present, discuss and collaborate in moving forward the sustainable food agenda. Paper presentations and panel discussions will be given by leading thinkers within academia, industry, the charitable sector and grassroots movements to prompt valuable discussion. We invite presenters and participants to join virtually.

Agenda

Day one

09:00 -09.15 Opening and symposium handover, John Harvey, N-Lab, Uni of Nottingham  

09.15 – 09.30 Opening speech -Coventry MP 

09.30 to 10:00 Keynote- Prof Anna Davies, Trinity College, Dublin 

10:00 to 10:30 Keynote-  Jamie Crummie, Too Good To Go 

10:40 to 12:40 Track A Presentations:  The evolving crisis of food waste from farm to folk and Track B Presentations: Key issues, challenges and solutions to food and nutrition insecurity 

13:15 to 2:00 Track B Panel Discussion: What enabled and constrained community food groups during the Pandemic?  

14:10 to 16:10 Track C Presentations: Digital platforms as sustainable food solutions 

16:10 – 17:00 FareShare event - CU presentation and FareShare keynote- Simone Connolly, FareShare Midlands 

17:10 - 17:15 Day one close 

The Future of Food Symposium 2021 Report

The Future of Food Symposium 2021: From Recovery to Resilience was held on the 8th and 9th of September 2021.

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Enquiries

For enquiries please contact Dr Jordon Lazell

07912327122
jordon.lazell@coventtry.ac.uk