Panel Discussion - The True Cost of Food: can we afford it and how do we change it?
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Put in dollar figures, the annual loss in environmental damage due to the food sector has been estimate at over twice its total economic output. Health costs to society from food, primarily though obesity and diabetes, have been put at a staggering 11% of global GDP. An expert panel will discuss what is the true cost of our food once its external impacts on nature, society and individual health are taken into account? Can we afford to continue to pay these hidden costs? Can costing these externalities bring about change in the way giant food companies operate and our own food choices?
Date: 27 March 2018, 17:00
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: Shulman Auditorium
Speakers: Sam Bickersteth (Oxford Martin School Rockefeller Planetary Health programme), Lauren Baker (Global Alliance for the Future of Food), Duncan Williamson (Head of Food Policy at WWF-UK ), Ian Noble (Mondelez), David Barling (University of Hertfordshire), Stephen Nelson (TBD) (DEFRA)
Organising department: Environmental Change Institute
Organiser: Roger Sykes (Environmental Change Institute)
Organiser contact email address: roger.sykes@eci.ox.ac.uk
Host: Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford)
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Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://goo.gl/DjdQpB
Booking email: roger.sykes@eci.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Saher Hasnain