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A Meal To Explore The Future Of Food During One World Week
| Published: 14th October 2013 16:34 |
How do we source food more sustainably?
Where can we find local food?
Why are so many farmers in poor countries going hungry?
How do we make sure farmers get a fair deal?
These are some of the questions guests will be exploring at a Food Futures evening at Highbury College's Chimes restaurant on 22nd October. Catering students will be preparing a meal using local and fairly traded ingredients and Megan Saunders will talk about the EU backed Local Food project which she heads for the Portsmouth area.
Later, Nick Dearden, the new director of the World Development Movement, will give us a more global perspective on food sovereignty and the role of agribusiness.
Sarah Hirom, one of the organisers, says. "This is part of the One World Week programme - a time to think about issues which affect us all. We are asking people to think whether we consume more than enough and more than our share of world resources. Should we, in the words of Archbishop Romero, "Aspire not to have more, but to be more"?
We need to value the people who produce our food, both here and abroad. Too often they are cheated out of fair prices and land rights. We also need to question how agribusiness companies are damaging the environment and encouraging us all to eat badly. There are exciting initiatives around to challenge the way we run our food system today and they are urgently needed."
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