Drivers and Influencers: What Shapes the Food System?
Professor Tim Lang, Rebecca Wells and Raquel Ajates Gonzalez from the Centre for Food Policy at City University London will be giving the lecture (live from City University London) “Drivers and Influencers: What shapes the food system?”. The food system can be seen as a dynamic interacting and contested arena in which drivers and actors shape and pressurise who eats what, when, why and how, and what effects and outcomes they have or try to achieve. Drivers shape systems but also face resistance. Whatever our model of the food system (engineering, biomedical, agricultural, economic or social, etc.), we have to recognise that some forces dominate the world of food. If we want to understand the dynamics of the total food system, we need to map all drivers not just some; so precisely what are these drivers and why do we need to consider them?
Date:
28 January 2016, 17:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2016)
Venue:
Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details:
Herbertson Room
Speakers:
Professor Tim Lang (Professor of Food Policy, City University London),
Rebecca Wells (City University London),
Raquel Ajates Gonzalez (City University London)
Organising department:
Environmental Change Institute
Organisers:
Dr John Ingram (University of Oxford),
Dr Rebecca White (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
rebecca.white@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Hosts:
Dr John Ingram (University of Oxford),
Dr Rebecca White (University of Oxford)
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Rebecca White
