Growing need for sustainable food
Published 22 October 2010
Event 29 October 2010
Planning for sustainable food production and consumption is an increasingly important issue and one that has attracted top names in the field to a University of Brighton conference which hopes to define ways of achieving those goals.
In the wider contexts of global climate change, a world population of nine billion and growing, competing food production systems and diet-related public health concerns, are there new concepts for urban and rural planning capable of supporting sustainable and equitable food systems?
The second European Sustainable Food Planning Conference, run by the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), aims to promote cross-disciplinary discussions between active researchers and practitioners in response to this question, and to address related issues which emerged from the first conference last year in Almere, Netherlands.
Working at a range of scales and with a variety of practical and theoretical models, the conference will review and elaborate definitions of sustainable food systems, and begin to define ways of achieving them. To this end four different themes have been defined as entry-points into the discussion of Sustainable food planning: urban agriculture, integrating health, environment and society, food in urban design,and planning and urban food governance.
Andre Viljoen (pictured below), principal lecturer in the University of Brighton's School of Architecture and Design, said: "The conference themes will enable an articulation of the manifold problems associated with, and possible solutions for, food provision in urbanising societies in developed and developing countries."
The two-day conference starts 29 October and keynote speakers include Professor June Komisar, from Ryerson University, Toronto, and Professor Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University, London.
Find out more: AESOP 2nd European sustainable food planning conference.
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