THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19.
Join us on March 25, 1pm at Lakeside Arts for a panel discussion on the challenge of food poverty in the 21st century.
Food poverty is a pressing problem in the UK and abroad. Holiday hunger schemes, breakfast clubs, and food banks are all evidence of a wider issue of people being able to access enough food to eat. Join us for a panel discussion on the challenges of ending food poverty.
Panel discussants: Dr Tereza Campello, Dr Megan Blake, Marsha Smith, and Georgiana Nica-Avram.
Dr Tereza Campello was the Minister of Social Development and Fight against Hunger in Brazil, from 2011-2016. Dr Campello formulated and coordinated the Brazil without Extreme Poverty Plan, which contributed decisively to the elevation of 22 million people out of extreme poverty. She coordinated the Food and Nutrition Security National Policy, which saw Brazil’s removal from the UN World Hunger Map in 2014. Dr Campello is the author of Faces of inequality in Brazil: a look at those left behind. Dr Campello is a Senior Visiting Fellow with the Future Food Beacon.
Dr Megan Blake is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. She is a recognised expert in food security and food justice. She has an established international reputation for her research focusing on 3 intersecting strands: 1) Surplus food chains and practices of redistribution 2) Community organisations, social innovation and self-organisation, and practices of resilience 3) Social inequalities. Her work is underpinned by a practice-based theoretical approach. She works closely with local and national scale organisations and local authorities to achieve research impacts that make real change. She is actively involved in public dissemination and has organised and facilitated a number of community engagement events and conferences, has been an invited commentator on national and international TV and radio programmes, and has published in and been quoted by national and international press.
Marsha Smith has ten years’ experience working in award-winning community food initiatives. She contends that public meals at mealtimes, using surplus foods are a response to food insecurity and food wastage, but may also be understood as a new form of commensality, or group eating practice. Marsha is currently undertaking a PhD in social eating at Coventry University, she is a Visiting Fellow at Nottingham Trent University and an academic advisor to FoodHall in Sheffield.
Georgiana Nica-Avram is an early- career researcher from the University of Nottingham, Georgiana's background is multi-disciplinary. She has a long-standing interest in approaches that facilitate social change in the areas of food-sharing, food waste, outdoor advertising and destitution. Most recently, Georgiana looked into the relationship between food-sharing and deprivation by drawing on network science and machine learning methodologies.
This event is free, but booking is required.