Students from five institutions joined food system professionals at the recent IFSTAL Annual Lecture. The event also marked the launch of the eighth year of the innovative teaching programme. The Royal Veterinary College’s Camden Campus played host to the event, … Continued
Around IFSTAL’s five collaborating institutions, students from a broad range of disciplines are preparing to sharpen their food systems skills as the IFSTAL teaching programme welcomes students for the eighth year. The 2022/23 year launches with an event on 19 … Continued
A two-part IFSTAL training course in Makerere University, Kampala has given participants new food system perspectives and skills. Bring together 26 individuals drawn from university students, academics and professionals working across the food sector in Uganda and what do you … Continued
Andrea Barbato reflects on how learnings from a recent IFSTAL workshop resonate with one particular real world issue. Wicked problems are problems so difficult to define and to solve that they “tend to become chronic.” (Raab, 2016). They are characterised … Continued
Food systems academics and trainers from IFSTAL have welcomed a call for ‘systems thinking’ in the newly launched National Food Strategy, led by food business leader Henry Dimbleby. The report, which devotes a chapter to the complexities, dynamics and challenges … Continued
In May 2021 we welcomed Sarah Bridle and Dan Crossley to our annual public lecture to discuss the challenges of communicating the climate change impacts of food. Chaired by the IFSTAL Programme Leader, Dr John Ingram of the Environmental Change … Continued