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Objectives
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Going
Against the Grain: Sustainable Agriculture and the Global
Food Economy
LEAD International Session on Future Food Security
Imperial College London, Wye, Kent, United Kingdom
1-6 April and 15-20 April 2004
Objectives
To
explore multiple dimensions of future food security challenges,
from local to global, with a particular emphasis on how they
are inter-related.
To study the complexity of sustainable food systems and explore
the challenges to, and opportunities for, sustainable and
equitable production and distribution of food resources with
case studies of food production, processing, and distribution
activities in the UK.
To strengthen Associates capabilities in ethical decision-making,
and effective analytical and presentation skills through a
final reporting process on the session theme.
To provide an opportunity to network with peers from all parts
of the world in order to strengthen the links among them.
Context
The
objective of the final LEAD International Session for Cohort
10 is to explore the challenges of global and local food sustainability
and security. Close to 800 million people do not have enough
to eat, yet the world produces more food per inhabitant than
ever before. This contradiction demands an analysis of the
policies and practices that disrupt the path that should exist
between food production and adequate nutrition.
Food
insecurity and unsustainability is the result of a range of
complex factors. This session aims to provide an overview
of these factors and potential solutions, identifying key
areas of controversy in the food security debate while balancing
North/South issues and perspectives. This session is being
held in the UK because its agriculture and land use are challenged
at present by factors which will come to affect all countries
in the near future C a decline in rural populations and economy,
changing food and trade policies, concerns about disease,
safety and new technologies, and debate about the food chain
and the role of business. Further, the UK and Europe occupy
an important position with respect to North/South dialogue
on trade in food and developmental policy. Key issues and
potential case studies in the UK will be identified, paying
special attention to the relationship between farming, food
and the environmentan area in which LEAD is concentrating
its efforts.
LEAD
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