A guest blog by Bianca Minotti, a Food Policy student from City University As part of my undergraduate program at the University of Gastronomic Sciences (Pollenzo, Italy), I chose to do my dissertation on the new phenomenon of urban food … Continued
Not by design, but three out of the five workplace speakers at our Away Day had a lot to say about the amount of sugar in 100ml of Coca-Cola. 10.6g to be precise! No rounding down or up permitted when … Continued
Our second webinar of the year was carried out on the 13th of March with John Ingram from the University of Oxford, and Rosemary Collier from the University of Warwick speaking on the concepts and practices within Food System Resilience. … Continued
We are no longer selling tickets through the Oxford University website, but if you are still interested in coming, please contact roger.sykes@eci.ox.ac.uk to discuss options. How do we create learning environments that skill up people to effectively respond to today’s … Continued
In my last blog post on food systems thinking, I highlighted three challenges that appear when we try to think about or address problems in food systems: incomplete knowledge, the limitations of human cognition, and our limited capacity to intervene. … Continued
On Thursday 29th March 2018, three lucky IFSTAL students were offered the chance to visit Bayer’s Chishill Research Farm, just outside Cambridge. They were the winner and runners up in the Bayer Oxford Farming Conference Competition earlier in 2018. … Continued