From February to June 2016, Sustain member the Food Research Collaboration (FRC) worked with the Gender and Sexualities Research Forum at City University London and the food systems teaching alliance IFSTAL to organise a series of five seminars on Ecofeminism, Food and Social Justice.
As food researchers and campaigners know, food is a multifaceted issue, with many links both to the environment and to women's issues. To the organisers' knowledge, however, this was the first time academics and activists had come together to explore these links in depth.
Participants included ecofeminist Professor Mary Mellor, food journalists Sheila Dillon and Rosie Boycott, Professor Jane Dixon, who highlighted the links between gender inequality and food insecurity, and Kate Metcalf of WEN UK (the Women’s Environmental Network), which runs community-based food growing projects and cooking workshops.
The seminars can be viewed online at the FRC website here.
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